[openbiblio-dev] Bibliographic metadata sets

Wed Feb 8 12:46:11 UTC 2012

On 8 February 2012 12:44, Antoine Isaac <aisaac at few.vu.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> +1 to using the data hub for monitoring which datasets is available or not.
> That's how we did for the Library Linked Data incubator group:
> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/XGR-lld-vocabdataset/#Library_Linked_Data_at_CKAN
> And we did not regret it one second--in fact we could even some fancy cloud
> visualization from William :-)
>
> We ended up creating our own group (http://thedatahub.org/group/lld). That
> was unfortunate, but we had no real choice: some of our data was not 100%
> bibliographic, and some was not open, so we couldn't re-use
> http://thedatahub.org/group/bibliographic ...

The beauty of groups is you can boot them and add datasets to them
really quickly. E.g. here's a group I booted (with Mark and Etienne)
for datasets we want to import into BibSoup.net:

<http://thedatahub.org/group/bibsoup>

Rufus

> Note that we also ended up putting all this is an separate deliverable. You
> don't want to pollute your main report with long lists that will appeal only
> to a small subset of your audience...
>
> Best,
>
> Antoine
>
>
>
> -----
>
>
> Yep, thedatahub is the first one on the list, i was trying to collect a list
> of major bibliographic catalogues but i guess it's not necessary since
> they're all in the data hub anyways :) Naomi, that spreadsheet is mainly
> about open access ressources rather than open bibliographic metadata, isn't
> ? On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Naomi Lillie <naomi.lillie at okfn.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Primavera,
>> >
>> > I was doing something similar recently - please see thread 'Datasets
>> > spreadsheet' from 2nd Feb as it has some helpful responses and The
>> > DataHub
>> > is useful.
>> >
>> > N
>> >
>> >
>> > On 8 February 2012 11:28, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>> >
>>>
>>> >> On 8 February 2012 11:25, Primavera De Filippi
>>> >> <primavera.defilippi at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >> > Hi all,
>>>> >> > I am compiling a list of open bibliographic (meta)datasets to
>>>
>>> >> incorporate
>>>>
>>>> >> > into the Open Metadata Handbook.
>>>> >> >
>>>
>>> >>
>>> >> http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Open_Metadata_Handbook/Data_Integration&stable=0#Retrieving_data
>>> >>
>>> >> Please could use the dedicated group on the DataHub that we've been
>>> >> maintaining for a while now :-)
>>> >>
>>> >> <http://thedatahub.org/group/bibliographic>
>>> >>
>>> >> I'd really suggest against incorporating this into the handbook since
>>> >> it will just go out of date -- instead just link to this existing list
>>> >> on the DataHub (and to specific datasets on the DataHub as required)
>>> >> :-)
>>> >>
>>> >> Rufus
>>> >>
>>>>
>>>> >> > I was wondering whether such list already exist anywhere, and if
>>>> >> > not,
>>>> >> > whether you can think of anything that i should add to the list.
>>>> >> > Thanks,
>>>> >> > Primavera
>>>> >> >
>
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