[open-bibliography] ANN: British National Bibliography

Fri Feb 11 13:11:06 UTC 2011

Is it possible to get a dump of the BNB data as refined/enhanced by the Open
Bibliography project? (rather than just the SPARQL endpoint to query)

Thanks,

Owen

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 3:16 PM, William Waites <ww at eris.okfn.org> wrote:

> Following up on the earlier announcement [1] that the British Library
> [2] has made the British National Bibliography [3] available under a
> public domain dedication, the JISC Open Bibliography [4] project has
> worked to make this data more useable.
>
> The data has been loaded into a Virtuoso store that is queriable
> through the SPARQL Endpoint [5] and the URIs that we have assigned
> each record use the ORDF [6] software to make them dereferencable,
> supporting perform content auto-negotiation as well as embedding RDFa
> in the HTML representation.
>
> The data contains some 3 million individual records and some 173
> million triples. Indexing the data was a very CPU intensive process
> taking approximately three days. Transforming and loading the source
> data took about five hours.
>
> For more detail see http://eris.okfn.org/ww/2010/11/bl
>
>   1.
> http://openbiblio.net/2010/11/17/jisc-openbibliography-british-library-data-release/
>   2. http://www.bl.uk/
>   3. http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/natbib.html
>   4. http://openbiblio.net/
>   5. http://bnb.bibliographica.org/sparql
>   6. http://ordf.org/
>
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