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JSON-LD / BibJSON

There have been requests on our mailing list recently to consider the various options for supporting validation of BibJSON and for supporting namespacing. These two options require some further consideration. Validation Efforts so far around BibJSON have focussed on building … Continue reading

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Final Product Post: Open Bibliography

Bibliographic data has long been understood to contain important information about the large scale structure of scientific disciplines, the influence and impact of various authors and journals. Instead of a relatively small number of privileged data owners being able to … Continue reading

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Collections in Bibliographica: unsorted information is not information

Collections are the first feature aimed for our users participation at Bibliographica. The collections are lists of books users can create and share with others, and they are one of the basic features of Bibliographica as Jonathan Gray pointed out … Continue reading

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Bibliographica gadget in Wikipedia

What is a wikipedia gadget? Thinking of ways to show the possibilities of linked data, we have made a Wikipedia gadget, making use of a great resource the Wikimedia developers give to the community. Wikipedia gadgets are small pieces of … Continue reading

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Medline dataset

Announcing the CC0 Medline dataset We are happy to report that we now have a full, clean public domain (CC0) version of the Medline dataset available for use by the community. What is the Medline dataset? The Medline dataset is … Continue reading

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OpenBiblio workshop report

#openbiblio #jiscopenbib The OpenBiblio workshop took place on 6th May 2011, at London Knowledge Lab Participants Peter Murray-Rust (Open Bibliography project, University of Cambridge, IUCr) Mark MacGillivray (Open Bibliography project, University of Edinburgh, OKF, Cottage Labs) William Waites (Open Bibliography … Continue reading

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Follow-up to serialising RDF in JSON

Following on from Richard’s post yesterday, we now have a JSON-LD serialiser for RDFlib. This is still a work in progress, and there may be things that it is serialising incorrectly. So, please give us feedback on this, and tell … Continue reading

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Comparative Serialisation of RDF in JSON

This is a comparison of RDF-JSON and JSON-LD for serialising bibliographic RDF data. Given that we are also working with BibServer we have taken a BibJSON document as our source data for comparison. The objective was to both understand these … Continue reading

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Getting open bibliographic data from (UK)PMC / PubMed

For some time now, the JISC Open Bibliography project team has been attempting to get open bibliographic data from (UK)PMC / PubMed. Everyone involved (Robert Kiley – Wellcome, Ben O’Steen, Peter Murray-Rust – JISC OpenBib, Jeff Beck – NIH/NLM/NCBI, Johanna … Continue reading

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Bibliographica and Edinburgh International Science Festival

This weekend I was trying to build a useful search tool to help my wife find interesting events on at the Edinburgh International Science Festival. One problem was that the dataset was poor, and the descriptions did not always give … Continue reading

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