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open theses at EURODOC

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Mark MacGillivray

#jiscopenbib #opentheses On Friday 1st April 2011, Mark MacGillivray, Peter Murray-Rust and Ben O’Steen remotely attended the EURODOC conference in Vilnius, Lithuania in order to take part in an Open Theses workshop locally hosted by Daniel Mietchen and Alfredo Ferreira … Continue reading →

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EURODOC open theses workshop

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Mark MacGillivray

Copied from Peter – http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/03/29/open-theses-at-eurodoc-2011-04-01-sleepless-in-seattle/: #jiscopenbib #eurodoc #opentheses As part of our JISCOpenBIB project we are running a workshop on Open Theses at EURODOC 2011. “We” is an extended community of volunteers centered round the main JISC project. In that … Continue reading →

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open bibliographic data and dev8d

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Mark MacGillivray

Ben, Mark and Rufus are attending Dev8D this week – 16th Feb – 18th Feb 2011. This is a very exciting event where we hope to see lots of people from UK higher education institutions engaging with open knowledge and … Continue reading →

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Open bibliographic principles announced

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Mark MacGillivray

On Monday 17th January at the Visions of a semantic molecular future symposium and hackfest, during a presentation packed with displays of exciting new technology, Peter Murray-Rust introduced the Open Bibliographic Principles on behalf of the contributor group that has … Continue reading →

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Academic Bibliography data available from Acta Cryst E

Posted on January 12, 2011 by benosteen

The bibliographic data from Acta Cryst E, a publication by the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), has been extracted and made available with their consent. You can find a SPARQL endpoint for the data here and the full dataset here. … Continue reading →

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JISC OpenBibliography: Development ideas

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Mark MacGillivray

Now that we have a queryable British National Bibliography dataset, we are investigating useful functionality to take advantage of the data. The team have listed a few development ideas based both on our own interests and on discussion with others … Continue reading →

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Querying the British National Bibliography

Posted on November 22, 2010 by ww

Following up on the earlier announcement that the British Library has made the British National Bibliography available under a public domain dedication, the JISC Open Bibliography project has worked to make this data more useable. The data has been loaded … Continue reading →

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Characterising the British Library Bibliographic dataset

Posted on November 18, 2010 by benosteen

Having RDF data is good. Having Linkable data is better but having some idea of what sorts of properties you can expect to find within a triplestore or block of data can be crucial. That sort of broad-stroke information can … Continue reading →

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JISC OpenBibliography: British Library data release

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Mark MacGillivray

The JISC OpenBibliography project is excited to announce that the British Library is providing a set of bibliographic data under CC0 Public Domain Dedication Licence. We have initially received a dataset consisting of approximately 3 million records, which is now … Continue reading →

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"Bundling" instances of author names together without using owl:sameas

Posted on November 17, 2010 by benosteen

Bundling? It’s a verb I’ve taken from ”Glaser, H., Millard, I., Jaffri, A., Lewy, T. and Dowling, B. (2008) On Coreference and The Semantic Web http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/15765/” where the core idea is that you have a number of URIs that mean or … Continue reading →

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