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Characterising the British Library Bibliographic dataset
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
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
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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Augmenting the British Library's RDF data to allow for disambiguation
The British Library have released what they term the ‘British National Bibliography’ (BNB) under a permissive licence. This constitutes just under 3 million records, and is derived from the ‘most polished set of bibliographic data’ as some of it dates … Continue reading
Using the ORDF Fresnel Tool
The Fresnel Vocabulary for RDF provides a way to write down a set of instructions for transforming RDF statements into HTML for display. For some time, the ORDF library has included two implementations of Fresnel, one in JavaScript and one … Continue reading
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Some obvious URI patterns for a service?
Whilst the technical issues and backends may vary, there are one or two URI patterns that may be adopted I think. It’s not REST, but it is a sensible structure I hope. (This is not to replace voID, but to … Continue reading
JISC OpenBibliography: Peter Murray-Rust at RLUK
Peter Murray-Rust will be attending the RLUK conference on the 10th to 12th November 2010, and he has issued a request for community involvement on his blog. Please have a read, and get in touch if you are interested in … Continue reading
JISC OpenBibliography: progress report
The JISC Open Bibliography project has had some success recently, and is proceeding to build on that success with further development and advocacy. This seems like a good opportunity to recap the project so far, and to consider what is … Continue reading
JISC OpenBibliography: CUL data release
The JISC OpenBibliography project has received agreement from Cambridge University Library to provide a set of bibliographic data under an open license (ODC PDDL). This is great news for the project and the wider community, and we will be working … Continue reading
Data Triage Notes
I’ve begun to write up my experiences and notes on the triage of the datasets I am processing for the JISC Open Bibliography and Citation projects, in a way that others might make sense of them. You can find the … Continue reading