[open-bibliography] Openbiblio workshop at OKCon

Wed Jul 13 18:58:02 UTC 2011

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Adrian Pohl <adrian.pohl at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hello Karen,
>
> you are right that the wording could be more explicit but I think it
> is in fact explicit enough if one regards the context of the
> discussion and the wording of the German original.
>
>

> Interestingly, in a related note which underpins these statements, the
> German National Library of Medicine since 2000 has been scanning
> tables of contents of more than 600 German medical journals and 200
> articles of journals in the fields nutrition, agriculture and the
> environment. They OCR these ToCs, extract structured article data from
> it and index it in their portals MEDPILOT and GREENPILOT. Until now
> nobody objected and the resulting data (of 660 000 articles) will soon
> be published under a Public Domain licence. (This might be interesting
> for some on this list as only 10% of this data is contained in PubMed.
> It would make a nice combination with the Medline dataset. I'll write
> a blog post about it as soon the data is open.)
>
> This would be really vauable. I assume that "data" means the per-article
Open Bibliographic Data. I'll wait till it appears - it will have a
catalytic effect as it will be a central resource of high quality.

What language does it use where? i.e. does it translate titles?

-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
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