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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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BibServer new functionality

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Mark MacGillivray

During the sprint last week we made a lot of progress with the new functionality for version 0.5.0 – however, Etienne and I got so excited by some new ideas that we did not finish on time; apologies for the … Continue reading →

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Collections in Bibliographica: unsorted information is not information

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Open Knowledge International

Collections are the first feature aimed for our users participation at Bibliographica. The collections are lists of books users can create and share with others, and they are one of the basic features of Bibliographica as Jonathan Gray pointed out … Continue reading →

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Bibliographica gadget in Wikipedia

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Open Knowledge International

What is a wikipedia gadget? Thinking of ways to show the possibilities of linked data, we have made a Wikipedia gadget, making use of a great resource the Wikimedia developers give to the community. Wikipedia gadgets are small pieces of … Continue reading →

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Medline dataset

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Mark MacGillivray

Announcing the CC0 Medline dataset We are happy to report that we now have a full, clean public domain (CC0) version of the Medline dataset available for use by the community. What is the Medline dataset? The Medline dataset is … Continue reading →

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OpenBiblio workshop report

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Mark MacGillivray

#openbiblio #jiscopenbib The OpenBiblio workshop took place on 6th May 2011, at London Knowledge Lab Participants Peter Murray-Rust (Open Bibliography project, University of Cambridge, IUCr) Mark MacGillivray (Open Bibliography project, University of Edinburgh, OKF, Cottage Labs) William Waites (Open Bibliography … Continue reading →

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Comparative Serialisation of RDF in JSON

Posted on May 4, 2011 by richardjones

This is a comparison of RDF-JSON and JSON-LD for serialising bibliographic RDF data. Given that we are also working with BibServer we have taken a BibJSON document as our source data for comparison. The objective was to both understand these … Continue reading →

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Getting open bibliographic data from (UK)PMC / PubMed

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Mark MacGillivray

For some time now, the JISC Open Bibliography project team has been attempting to get open bibliographic data from (UK)PMC / PubMed. Everyone involved (Robert Kiley – Wellcome, Ben O’Steen, Peter Murray-Rust – JISC OpenBib, Jeff Beck – NIH/NLM/NCBI, Johanna … Continue reading →

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Bibliographica and Edinburgh International Science Festival

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Mark MacGillivray

This weekend I was trying to build a useful search tool to help my wife find interesting events on at the Edinburgh International Science Festival. One problem was that the dataset was poor, and the descriptions did not always give … Continue reading →

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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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