[open-bibliography] University library Darmstadt releases bibliographic data under CC0

Mon Mar 7 13:25:48 UTC 2011

Hello Jim,

2011/3/4 Jim Pitman <pitman at stat.berkeley.edu>:
> Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> http://www.ub.uni-dortmund.de/ubblog/offene-bibliographische-daten
>
> Great to see!  Mathias or Adrian (or other volunteer), please could you could make a brief English translation of the
> appened BLOG post and send to Adrian to post as a news item in the open biblio site?

I'll do this later.

> Do we have a structured list of announcements like this, with dates, organizations, number of records, some description of content?

The open data by Dortmund (not Darmstadt) university library is
another data release by a library from the hbz library network where I
work. We don't collect the announcements but provide descriptions of
the released data here:
https://wiki1.hbz-nrw.de/display/SEM/Recently+published+Open+Data+exports

> We should have a systematic way of maintaining and displaying such a list. I'll be glad to assist with this.

We've already got the bibliographic data group in CKAN which already
provides information about maintainers and could be used to gather
more information: http://ckan.net/group/bibliographic We decided in
the last meeting to somehow integrate it into openbiblio.net...

Cheers
Adrian

> It is very desirable
> for each such data release for OKFN to have a  technical contact with the organization, who may be responsive to details of licensing,
> updates and the like. I think this working group should aim to have someone who is responsible for keeping up each such  contact, and also
> someone responsible for monitoring the list of all pairs of contacts. The email list of all these pairs would be a simple and
> powerful means of maintaining a sense of community among providers of open biblio data. Such a network, if only initially a star shaped one with
> an OKFN admin volunteer at the center, would be a significant start towards the "Bibliographic Knowledge Network" imagined  as the product of
> the NSF sponsored BKN grant effort (url below). Funding for that grant is winding down, and I would like to see the code and data assets it generated
> finding good homes. So I am proposing that the BKN name be coopted by OKFN and administered by some subset of this working group as
> a name for a network of OKFN compliant openbiblio data providers, overseen by OKFN.
>
> I will be discussing this plan further with Rufus and Jonathan next week. If you have any reactions/suggestions, please
> post to the list or to one of us privately.
>
> many thanks
>
> --Jim
>
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