[open-bibliography] Announce: Open Bibliography (JISCOBIB)

Thu Jun 24 12:51:21 UTC 2010

Great stuff!  Is there a web page/blog announcing this that I can 
point to in a tweet?

Tim

>This is to announce the exciting news of a grant from JISC 
>(<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/>http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ ) to support an Open 
>Bibliography project for about a year. The project partners are:
>* University of Cambridge, Chemistry Department, Peter Murray-Rust 
>(Principal Investigator)
>* The Open Knowledge Foundation
>* The British Library (BL)
>* The University Library, University of Cambridge (CUL)
>* The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
>* The Public Library of Science [PLoS]
>
>The project is very closely coupled to a complementary project from 
>David Shotton (PI) at Oxford on Open Citations.
>
>To distinguish the project it has the unique tag #jiscobib
>
>The project starts next week and its first activities will be to 
>create a project plan for approval by JISC, and to create a web 
>presence.
>
>The proposal concentrates on:
>* developing the practice of Open bibliography (tools, protocols, 
>legal issues, etc.)
>* cases studies on selected bibliographic resources. The primary ones are:
>-- catalogue material ftom the BL
>-- catalogue material from the CUL
>-- Open Access (CC-BY) publications from the IUCr
>
>The main funded staff are Ben O'Steen, Rufus Pollock and Peter 
>Murray-Rust. We are extremely grateful for very significant 
>contributions from the partners, including the promise of material 
>which can be made Open.
>
>It is expected that the tools and protocols are generally suitable 
>for making Open bibliographies. The project will welcome suggestions 
>for contributions of material, effort and expertise (and has already 
>received some offers). We expect these to be discussed and reported 
>on this list or other lists/pages created by the project.
>
>As I (PM-R) have gaps in my bibliographic knowledge I may take the 
>opportunity to ask some questions on this list which may also be 
>useful for other newcomers to the subject.
>
>
>
>
>--
>Peter Murray-Rust
>Reader in Molecular Informatics
>Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
>University of Cambridge
>CB2 1EW, UK
>+44-1223-763069
>
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