[open-bibliography] RWTH Aachen library opens up their catalog data

[Jonathan Gray]

Amazing news! ;-)

Adrian: could you perhaps invite someone from this initiative to the Working
Group (and to this mailing list)?

All the best,

Jonathan

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Adrian Pohl <pohl at hbz-nrw.de> wrote:

>  Hallo,
>
> with the RWTH Aachen University Library another German library opened up
> its catalog under a CC-0-licence. See
> http://www.bth.rwth-aachen.de/offbibdat.html. (They even used a OKFN logo.
> I don't really know why...) Their catalog contains (at the time of the
> export) 1.230.180  records.
>
> The records stem from the hbz union catalog. The records' format is the
> MAB-based "hbz-Neutralformat" (like the foregoing exports). See
> http://opendata.hbz-nrw.de/projects/data-publishing/wiki/Hbz-Neutralformat for
> a german documentation. We aren't very happy with this format and are
> working on an easier to reuse format for the next update...
>
> Anyway, as we think the important first step to Linked Open Data is the
> legal and political step of opening up your raw data we are very happy to
> see that another German library has decided to join the Open Bibliographic
> Data initiative.
>
> Cheers,
> Adrian
>
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