[openbiblio-dev] bibliographica and edinburgh science festival data

[Mark MacGillivray]

Hi all,

This weekend I put up a tool to search Edinburgh International Science
Festival events, and I connected it up to the
bibliographica.org/search which now gives back JSON responses.

This means you can find an event and when you view more info you get
back a relevant reading list - e.g. stuff written by the speakers at
that event, or related to the event theme.

Unfortunately the underlying data was a bit poor, so there are a few
events with no theme or speaker listed, and various other issues. I
have tried to tidy it a fair bit though.

there is a blog post on openbiblio about it:
http://openbiblio.net/2011/04/11/bibliographica-and-edinburgh-international-science-festival/

or go direct to the tool here: http://eisf.cottagelabs.com

This quite nicely shows what useful things we can do with open data -
both from the British Library dataset and from the science festival
data!

I would like to add some swishy graphical stuff too, if i get time.