[open-bibliography] New group for bibliographic data on CKAN

Wed Mar 3 15:04:58 UTC 2010

On 1 March 2010 22:23, Jim Pitman <pitman at stat.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> CKAN has a full RESTful API and search interface that talks JSON.
>
> Marvellous!  I am so relieved to learn that.
> Now a question is: how happy you are with the tools you have in place for managing this sort of data?
> There is a lot of data in this vein which partners in the BKN project should be glad to contribute.
> I would be glad to work with okfn to find maintainers on this data.

That would be great Jim.

> BKN offers a standard,
>  BibJSON  http://www.bibkn.org/bibjson/index.html

This looks great. One question (and I apologize if this is answered in
the spec -- I haven't gone through it in detail): how does bibjson
relate to the FRBR schema concepts (if at all).

> intended to rigorize JSON export formats such as
> <http://ckan.net/api/search/package?groups=bibliographic&all_fields=1>

So you mean a CKAN Package would become a type of bibliographic
record? That's definitely an interesting idea.

Rufus