[open-bibliography] Dortmund data release at EPSI platform

Wed Mar 9 10:01:21 UTC 2011

Great,

open bibliographic data from libraries seems to get attention in the
broader realm of Public Sector Information/Open Government Data. The
European Public Sector Information (PSI) Platform has published a post
on the data release by Dortmund University Library, see [1].
Obviously, they've read openbiblio.net.

Quote:

"In the German states North Rhine Westphalia (NRW) and Lower Saxony an
important part of the PSI re-use debate is pushed by those involved
with university libraries. So it is interesting to note there is
another university, the University of Dortmund, that is now opening up
its bibliographic data for re-use, and allows download of the entire
dataset, bringing it under a Creative Commons zero license."

I think that's a great development. Hopefully libraries can be
catalysts for Open Government Data in Germany. Obviously, in UK it's
the other way round as there already is an evolving Open Data
infrastructure (which Germany lacks) where libraries are now following
ther public institutions by releasing their data.

Cheers
Adrian

[1] http://www.epsiplatform.eu/news/news/university_dortmund_opens_up_bibliographic_data