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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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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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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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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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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

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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

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