[open-bibliography] Open bibliographic data workshop, Berlin, 7th October 2010

Fri Jul 16 18:30:27 UTC 2010

Hi all,

Just to let you know the rooms are now confirmed and I've started a
planning document! ;-)

  http://okfnpad.org/pdobd

All the best,

Jonathan

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just a quick note to let you know that we're currently organising an
> international open bibliographic data workshop / hackday at the Freie
> Universität Berlin on 7th October 2010.
>
> This will be very much focused on discussion and 'getting things done'
> -- rather than presentations per se. Key thing is to get interested
> folks together! Some ideas for things I'd be keen to see:
>
>  * discussion / drafting for a 'manual' for opening up bibliographic data
>  * discussion of the role of bibliographic data to help determine
> which works are in the public domain in which countries (to build
> services like publicdomainworks.net)
>  * discussion / hacking on key technologies -- e.g. versioning for
> data, RDF, data stores, user services, ...
>  * future of open bibliographic data -- what services people would
> like to see (e.g. using data as backbone for new kinds of research
> tools in digital humanities, representing data on maps/timelines)
>  * open bibliographic data / LOD
>  * add things here! ;-)
>
> Would be most grateful if folks could indicate their
> interest/availability on the following link so we get a clearer idea
> about numbers:
>
>  http://doodle.com/nrnssh36zty7wc98
>
> This will be a satellite event to the The 3rd Free Culture Research
> Conference on 8-9th October:
>
>  http://wikis.fu-berlin.de/display/fcrc/Home
>
> --
> Jonathan Gray
>
> Community Coordinator
> The Open Knowledge Foundation
> http://blog.okfn.org
>
> http://twitter.com/jwyg
> http://identi.ca/jwyg
>

-- 
Jonathan Gray

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The Open Knowledge Foundation
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