[open-bibliography] Minutes for the 9th meeting / Contributions to openbiblio.net

Tue Mar 8 13:50:37 UTC 2011

If we can co-draft a brief script together at some point, then I can
see if I can find someone to help put together a short film!

Suggest we put this on the backburner for now.

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle at kcoyle.net> wrote:
> It would be great to have some educational materials. A HUGE amount of
> education needs to be done, iin particular to explain the benefits of
> OpenBib. The W3C LLD group will be addressing some of that as an issue, but
> not coming up with solutions.
>
> The short video done by Freebase on linking
>  http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/What_is_Freebase%3F
> is excellent. But I admit I don't have the talent...
>
> kc
>
> Quoting Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>:
>
>> Excellent - thanks Adrian!
>>
>> I was also wondering recently whether openbiblio.net should aim to
>> offer people an introduction to open bibliographic data as well as
>> giving info on what this working group and others are up to in this
>> area. Would it be worth having some info on this on the main landing
>> page and moving the blog to openbiblio.net/blog?
>>
>> Also I wonder whether in the medium term we want something like a very
>> short film explaining what open bibliographic data is and why it
>> matters, aimed at librarians, possible users of the data, and the
>> general public. What do you think?
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Adrian Pohl <adrian.pohl at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I posted the minutes of yesterday's meeting to openbiblio.net, see
>>>
>>> http://openbiblio.net/2011/03/02/minutes-9th-virtual-meeting-of-the-okfn-openbiblio-group/
>>>
>>> I also want to make clear that anybody being active - practically or
>>> theoretically - in the open bibliographic data realm is invited to
>>> post on openbiblio.net.
>>>
>>> So, if you want to share your thoughts on open bibliographic data, run
>>> a project that involves opening up bibliographic data or do a
>>> presentation about open bibliographic data post about it at
>>> openbiblio.net.
>>>
>>> Also, we are happy to add more open bibliographic data projects to
>>> http://openbiblio.net/p/. I just added lobid.org and COMET. I think we
>>> should definitely add the open bibliographic data guide
>>> (http://obd.jisc.ac.uk/) somewhere too. In the project list? Or
>>> somewhere else?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Adrian
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>>
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