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Importing Spanish National Library to BibServer

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Etienne Posthumus

The Spanish National Library (Biblioteca Nacional de España or BNE) has released their library catalogue as Linked Open Data on the Datahub. Initially this entry only containd the SPARQL endpoints and not downloads of the full datasets. After some enquiries … 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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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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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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Recent BibServer technical development

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Mark MacGillivray

Along with the recent push of new front-end functionality to BibServer, and demonstrated on BibSoup, we have also applied some changes to the back-end. The new scheduled collection uploader is now runnable as a stand-alone tool, to which source URLs … Continue reading →

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BibJSON updates

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Mark MacGillivray

Following recent discussion on our mailing list, BibJSON has been updated to adopt JSON-LD for all your linked data needs. This enables us to keep the core of BibJSON pretty simple whilst also opening up potential for more complex usage … Continue reading →

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New BibServer features available on BibSoup

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Mark MacGillivray

A couple of months ago the development team had a Sprint and came up with some cool ideas of how to improve the user experience for BibServer and, subsequently, BibSoup. Have a play with the new features and see below … Continue reading →

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