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Final report: JISC Open Bibliography 2

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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BiblioHack: Day 2, part 2

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

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

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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Open source development – how we are doing

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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Planning for the next three months

We have developed BibJSON… We’ve improved BibServer… We’ve made BibSoup… …But what’s next? The nature of cutting-edge technology is that it is fast-paced and constantly adapting. We may think we’ve come up with a good idea, but if it turns … Continue reading

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Day 3 of the March Sprint

This morning we were buzzing from the Meet-up, excited about the interesting people we met and the cool things they talked about. Graham Steel, who was in town for yesterday’s event, stopped by to see what the team was up … Continue reading

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Day 2 of the March Sprint

Today started well: Berkeley and PubMed contacted us about running a BibServer, which is great! It was also a day of comings and goings: Etienne arrived to code with Mark, Richard Jones of Cottage Labs dropped by to play around … Continue reading

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Day 1 of the March Sprint

Agendas are funny things; you have an idea of what you want to do, you write a few bullet-points to focus it a little and you presume things will naturally lead on from one thing to the next… Well, not … Continue reading

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March Sprint and Meet-up

There will be a coding and planning sprint for the project team in Edinburgh on Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th March, with tying-up of loose ends on Wednesday 14th for those still around. Following on from the productivity of January’s … Continue reading

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