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

[Christopher Gutteridge]

Sure. The RDF export is a bit whacky as it's not been configured 
differently from a default eprints archive! I'm sure it could be cleaned 
up but I've not got time for another project! Perhaps if someone who 
cares created an example of a record, we could code that up quite 
easily, but I can't be hunting for or creating schemas for ANOTHER 
thing! *grin*

The repository URI & VoID is: http://roar.eprints.org/id/repository

But I suggest you'll get more useful data by going to the frontpage and 
doing export-as "EP3 XML" which will just dump the database in its 
native structure.

On 16/08/10 18:22, Ben O'Steen wrote:
> I can second OAISter as a tool to let people search over the known open
> access repositories, but getting a copy of the data it holds is more
> murky.
>
> Chris, I can't remember if I've already asked this before, but is the
> ROAR dataset available for download somewhere?
>
> Ben
>
> On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 17:16 +0100, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
>    
>> oaister will give you quite a few. As will our ROAR,
>> http://roar.eprints.org/
>>
>> On 16/08/10 16:40, John Wilkin wrote:
>>      
>>> No, but it's my fault:  too terse.  CKAN is a registry of data (including metadata) sources, but I'm wondering about the metadata themselves.  That is, is there a searchable bibliographic database of these materials such that a faculty member could locate, say, free-free articles on adhesion in polymer blends?
>>>
>>> On Aug 16, 2010, at 11:33 AM, 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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