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Wednesday, 3rd March 2010

New Open Knowledge Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data

Jonathan Gray from the Open Knowledge Foundation has an informative blog post about a new working group that will focus on open bibliographic data.

Gray writes:

In the past few weeks there have been a number of developments related to opening up bibliographic metadata. At the end of January we blogged [as did ResourceShelf] about CERN opening up their library data. Just recently Ghent University Library have published their data under an open license (see ugent_biblio and ugent_catalog) - which is excellent news!

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We’ve been interested in open bibliographic metadata for a number of years - and thought it was about time to start a working group on open bibliographic data to strengthen the network of individuals, projects and institutions with an interest in this area:

+ http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/bibliography (Working Group Home Page

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If you’re interested in joining the conversation, you can add yourself to the open-bibliography mailing list. We’ve also started a bibliographic data group on CKAN, our open source registry of open data:

+ http://ckan.net/group/bibliographic

More info in the blog post including what the group "aims" to do.

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