[open-bibliography] British Library data announcement

Thu Nov 18 08:18:51 UTC 2010

the data is now cleaned and loaded into a triplestore. just need to do
a dump of the cleaned data and tweak a few front-end things and it
will be available. i'll also give a few sample queries that will help
answer some of these questions. i'd actually say browsing by subject
heading - lcsh - might be nice and not too hard.

jim, i would imagine the process you are referring to to work
something like this - construct a query for the subset of the data
that you want, refine it, etc. once you have the identifiers for the
records you are interested in, you just fetch each one and add it to
your local store - identifiers are http uris of course.

will try t get this done today, but am at a conference and may have
limited screen time

cheers,
-w

* [2010-11-18 01:55:54 +0000] Ben O'Steen <bosteen at gmail.com> écrit:

] Lobbying here is perfect :)
] 
] From my trawls through the data, I've noticed that most records have dewey
] numbers - perhaps reorganization based on dewey ranges?
] 
] Any range you are particularly interested in?
] 
] Ben
] 
] On Nov 17, 2010 9:43 PM, "Jim Pitman" <pitman at stat.berkeley.edu> wrote:
] 
] Mark MacGillivray <mark at odaesa.com> wrote: > This is to notify list members
] that we have today publ...
] Released under CC0! Bravo.
] 
] > We are also working on getting the data up in a more useful environment -
] details to follow very ...
] Excellent. I look forward to this.
] What I would like is to be able to easily filter out a dump of books by
] broad subject
] domain, e.g. mathematics or statistics, and then be able to do some serious
] processing of those
] locally. This should be easier to provide than a full API, right? Who to
] contact to lobby for
] priority for such use cases?
] 
] Great thanks to all those who contributed to this effort.
] --Jim
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] 
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