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Final report: JISC Open Bibliography 2

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Mark MacGillivray

Following on from the success of the first JISC Open Bibliography project we have now completed a further year of development and advocacy as part of the JISC Discovery programme. Our stated aims at the beginning of the second year … Continue reading →

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Community Discussions 3

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

It has been a couple of months since the round-up on Community Discussions 2 and we have been busy! BiblioHack was a highlight for me, and last week included a meeting of many OKFN types – here’s a picture taken … Continue reading →

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Using wikipedia to build a philosophy (or other sort of) collection in BibSoup

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Mark MacGillivray

Here is a quick example of how to quickly build a reference collection in BibSoup, using the great source of knowledge that is Wikipedia. To begin with, you might want to go to Wikipedia directly and try performing some searches … Continue reading →

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Bringing the Open German National Bibliography to a BibServer

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Adrian Pohl

This blog post is written by Etienne Posthumus and Adrian Pohl. We are happy that the German National Library recently released the German National Bibliography as Linked Open Data, see (announcement). At the #bibliohack this week we worked on getting … Continue reading →

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BiblioHack: Day 2, part 2

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

Pens down! Or, rather, key-strokes cease! BiblioHack has drawn to a close and the results of two days’ hard labour are in: A Bibliographic Toolkit Utilising BibServer Peter Murray-Rust reported back on what was planned, what was done, and the … Continue reading →

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BiblioHack: Day 2, part 1

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

After easing into the day with breakfast and coffee, each of the 3 sub-groups gave an overview of the mini-project’s aim and fed back on the evening’s progress: Peter Murray-Rust revisited the overarching theme of ‘A Bibliographic Toolkit’ and the … Continue reading →

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BiblioHack: Day 1

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

The first day of BiblioHack was a day of combinations and sub-divisions! The event attendees started the day all together, both hackers and workshop / seminar attendees, and Sam introduced the purpose of the day as follows: coders – to … Continue reading →

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BiblioHack Meet-up

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

I’ve been quiet on this blog lately, but it’s in the same way a duck looks still when swimming: things may look peaceful but there is much activity going on beneath the surface! The Open Biblio crowd have been busy … Continue reading →

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Pubcrawler: finding research publications

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Mark MacGillivray

This is a guest post from Sam Adams. (We have been using Pubcrawler in the Open Biblio 2 project to create reference collections of journal articles, and hope to continue this work further; this is a brief introduction to the … Continue reading →

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Open source development – how we are doing

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Mark MacGillivray

Whilst at Open Source Junction earlier this year, I talked to Sander van der Waal and Rowan Wilson about the problems of doing open source development. Sander and Rowan work at OSS watch, and their aim is to make sure … Continue reading →

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