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EURODOC open theses workshop

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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Scholarly HTML

Hackfest at Cambridge on today, about scholarly HTML: http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/03/08/scholarly-html-hackfest/ Mark and possibly Rufus will be there, interesting findings will be available at http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/

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Open Bibliographic Data Challenge Update

The Open Bibliographic Data Challenge continues, and we await more interesting submissions. one prize awarded Further details about the challenge entry that was awarded a prize at dev8d have been written up by the challenge winner, Damian Steer. We would … Continue reading

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Getting bibliographica content via jquery

It is possible to get records of the British Library dataset by requesting output from bibliographica via jquery. Here is an example: <!– get a copy of jquery locally –> &lt;!– –&gt; <!– get a copy of jquery from google … Continue reading

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Using the bibliographica sparql API

Details about how to use the sparql API on bibliographica are available at http://bibliographica.org/demos/sparql.html.

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open bibliographic data and dev8d

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

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

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

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

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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