[open-bibliography] comprehensive bibliographic database of "open" resources?

Mon Aug 16 16:14:30 UTC 2010

We have been considering the idea of data.eprints.org to build a SPARQL 
endpoint for all sites running EPrints. Blue sky, right now, as there's 
only 3 sites running an up-to-date enough EPrints to have RDF data.

As sites upgrade to 3.2 over the next year this will proliferate, so if 
there's any critical bits of data people wish we'd included, now's the 
time to shout!

On 16/08/10 17:49, graham wrote:
> I may be wrong but I think John is looking for something rather
> different: the equivalent of what gets called a 'knowledge base' in
> proprietary applications like SFX, which would provide the ability to do
> bibliographic searches across open access and public domain databases.
> It's something I had been wondering about trying to create too, though
> at the moment it's just a rather vague idea.. As John implies, it would
> be a big job - not just to create but to keep up-to-date.
>
> Graham
>
> On 08/16/10 15:33, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>    
>> If I'm understanding you correctly, this is *exactly* what CKAN is for:
>>
>>    http://ckan.net/
>>    http://ckan.net/group/bibliographic
>>
>> CKAN is an open source registry of open data/open content 'packages'
>> (as in software packages). Medium to long term idea is something like
>> apt-get for open data, with support for automating lots of stuff.
>>
>> Focus is on material that is open as in opendefinition.org (of which
>> PD material and *some* CC licensed content is a subset).
>>
>> Does that help? Would love to have any feedback on how we can improve
>> CKAN for bibliographic material.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:52 PM, John Wilkin<jpwilkin at umich.edu>  wrote:
>>      
>>> All,
>>> Of course I can think of a bucket-load of reasons why this would be impossibly hard to assemble and maintain, but I'm still curious:  has any organization tried to create a database of essentially "open" bibliographic resources?  In this case, I'm interested in something broad enough to include CC, PD, etc.--i.e., resources that can be used (at least in scholarship and teaching) without fees paid to the maintainer of the resource?
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