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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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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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"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

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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

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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

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Disambiguation, deduplication and 'ideals'

(NB Republished from a mailing list conversation at http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-bibliography/2010-August/000397.html – follow this link to see the comments and replies) In my work on meshing bibliographic datasets together, I’ve been using a conceptual tool that I would like to hear views … Continue reading

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