15 April 2011
Weibel Lines: Principles of Linked Data Recast
Weibel Lines: Principles of Linked Data Recast: "Not so fast. I'm afraid we need another principle. Data curation. Data worth linking to is cared for, managed, corrected, updated. In the words of the old song (and yes, I expose my age) 'Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?' Bit-rot prevails, as sure as death and taxes."
Outgoing: Changes to VIAF's RDF
Outgoing: Changes to VIAF's RDF: "VIAF RDF has evolved over time and is about to change again to streamline the model. Using Barbara Tillett as an example, these before and after diagrams might give a sense of the changes in the next generation."
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open Data Search: finding useful datasets, worldwide
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open Data Search: finding useful datasets, worldwide: "March 16th, 2011
The following post is from Friedrich Lindenberg, who is a developer at the Open Knowledge Foundation working on CKAN, PublicData.eu and Open Spending.
Recently, there has hardly been a week in which there hasn’t been an announcement of a new local, regional or national open data initiative – including ever more extensive catalogues of data that is being opened up (CKAN alone now runs in 20 or more places). While this is great news for those of us interested in re-using the data, it also means it becomes increasingly hard to keep a good overview of what kind of data are available for which places. To get a better overview we’ve now started a meta search engine for open data, opendatasearch.org."
The following post is from Friedrich Lindenberg, who is a developer at the Open Knowledge Foundation working on CKAN, PublicData.eu and Open Spending.
Recently, there has hardly been a week in which there hasn’t been an announcement of a new local, regional or national open data initiative – including ever more extensive catalogues of data that is being opened up (CKAN alone now runs in 20 or more places). While this is great news for those of us interested in re-using the data, it also means it becomes increasingly hard to keep a good overview of what kind of data are available for which places. To get a better overview we’ve now started a meta search engine for open data, opendatasearch.org."
BibServer
BibServer: "BibServer
BibServer is a Python program which creates a network of displays of bibliographic data maintained in BibTeX format by contributing authors and editors. The displays link whenever possible to full text in open archives such as arXiv and PubMed, in electronic journals, and on author's homepages. Links to related articles and citations are provided by Google Scholar. For articles in mathematics, links are provided if possible to abstracts and reviews in MathSciNet and Zentralblatt MATH .
BibServer index of personal bibliographies
Personal BibServer: documentation
BibServer MetaSearch Access to various search engines and databases to facilitate control of multiple searches and navigation between different sources."
BibServer is a Python program which creates a network of displays of bibliographic data maintained in BibTeX format by contributing authors and editors. The displays link whenever possible to full text in open archives such as arXiv and PubMed, in electronic journals, and on author's homepages. Links to related articles and citations are provided by Google Scholar. For articles in mathematics, links are provided if possible to abstracts and reviews in MathSciNet and Zentralblatt MATH .
BibServer index of personal bibliographies
Personal BibServer: documentation
BibServer MetaSearch Access to various search engines and databases to facilitate control of multiple searches and navigation between different sources."
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Bibliographica is an open catalogue of cultural works. There are currently 3020429 works in the database.
Search by name, (e.g. Dickens), title, (e.g. War and Peace), etc."
Neil Beagrie’s Blog » Blog Archive » New Project for 2011 – Digital Preservation Benefit Analysis Tools
Neil Beagrie’s Blog » Blog Archive » New Project for 2011 – Digital Preservation Benefit Analysis Tools: "The “Digital Preservation Benefit Analysis Tools” project is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and will run from 1st February to 31 July 2011.
The project aims to test, review and promote combined use of the Keeping Research Data Safe (KRDS) Benefits Taxonomy and the Value Chain and Impact Analysis tool first applied in the I2S2 project for assessing the benefits and impact of digital preservation of research data. We will extend their utility to and adoption within the JISC community by providing user review and guidance for the tools and creating an integrated toolset. The project consortium consists of a mix of user institutions, projects, and disciplinary data services committed to the testing and exploitation of these tools and the lead partners in their original creation. We will demonstrate and critique the tools, and then create and disseminate the toolset and accompanying materials such as User Guides and Factsheets to the wider community."
The project aims to test, review and promote combined use of the Keeping Research Data Safe (KRDS) Benefits Taxonomy and the Value Chain and Impact Analysis tool first applied in the I2S2 project for assessing the benefits and impact of digital preservation of research data. We will extend their utility to and adoption within the JISC community by providing user review and guidance for the tools and creating an integrated toolset. The project consortium consists of a mix of user institutions, projects, and disciplinary data services committed to the testing and exploitation of these tools and the lead partners in their original creation. We will demonstrate and critique the tools, and then create and disseminate the toolset and accompanying materials such as User Guides and Factsheets to the wider community."
Top 100 most popular RDF namespace prefixes | cygri’s notes on web data
Top 100 most popular RDF namespace prefixes | cygri’s notes on web data: "Top 100 most popular RDF namespace prefixes
Posted on February 15, 2011 by Richard Cyganiak
I run prefix.cc, a website for RDF developers where anyone can register and look up the expansion URIs for namespace prefixes such as foaf, dc, qb or void. The site tracks which prefixes gets looked up most often. This allows some insight into the popularity of RDF vocabularies and datasets.
This post is a snapshot of the top 100 most requested prefixes as of today."
Posted on February 15, 2011 by Richard Cyganiak
I run prefix.cc, a website for RDF developers where anyone can register and look up the expansion URIs for namespace prefixes such as foaf, dc, qb or void. The site tracks which prefixes gets looked up most often. This allows some insight into the popularity of RDF vocabularies and datasets.
This post is a snapshot of the top 100 most requested prefixes as of today."
State of the LOD Cloud
State of the LOD Cloud: "State of the LOD Cloud
Chris Bizer (Freie Universität Berlin)
Anja Jentzsch (Freie Universität Berlin)
Richard Cyganiak (DERI, NUI Galway)
Version 0.2, 03/28/2011
This document provides statistics about the structure and content of the LOD cloud. It also analyzes the extend to which LOD data sources implement nine best practices that are either recommended W3C or have emerged within the LOD community.
All statistics within this document are based on the LOD data set catalog that is maintained on CKAN. If you spot any errors in the data describing the LOD data sets, it would be great if you would correct them directly on CKAN. For information on how to describe datasets on CKAN please refer to the Guidelines for Collecting Metadata on Linked Datasets in CKAN."
Chris Bizer (Freie Universität Berlin)
Anja Jentzsch (Freie Universität Berlin)
Richard Cyganiak (DERI, NUI Galway)
Version 0.2, 03/28/2011
This document provides statistics about the structure and content of the LOD cloud. It also analyzes the extend to which LOD data sources implement nine best practices that are either recommended W3C or have emerged within the LOD community.
All statistics within this document are based on the LOD data set catalog that is maintained on CKAN. If you spot any errors in the data describing the LOD data sets, it would be great if you would correct them directly on CKAN. For information on how to describe datasets on CKAN please refer to the Guidelines for Collecting Metadata on Linked Datasets in CKAN."
State of the LOD Cloud
State of the LOD Cloud: "State of the LOD Cloud
Chris Bizer (Freie Universität Berlin)
Anja Jentzsch (Freie Universität Berlin)
Richard Cyganiak (DERI, NUI Galway)
Version 0.2, 03/28/2011
This document provides statistics about the structure and content of the LOD cloud. It also analyzes the extend to which LOD data sources implement nine best practices that are either recommended W3C or have emerged within the LOD community.
All statistics within this document are based on the LOD data set catalog that is maintained on CKAN. If you spot any errors in the data describing the LOD data sets, it would be great if you would correct them directly on CKAN. For information on how to describe datasets on CKAN please refer to the Guidelines for Collecting Metadata on Linked Datasets in CKAN."
Chris Bizer (Freie Universität Berlin)
Anja Jentzsch (Freie Universität Berlin)
Richard Cyganiak (DERI, NUI Galway)
Version 0.2, 03/28/2011
This document provides statistics about the structure and content of the LOD cloud. It also analyzes the extend to which LOD data sources implement nine best practices that are either recommended W3C or have emerged within the LOD community.
All statistics within this document are based on the LOD data set catalog that is maintained on CKAN. If you spot any errors in the data describing the LOD data sets, it would be great if you would correct them directly on CKAN. For information on how to describe datasets on CKAN please refer to the Guidelines for Collecting Metadata on Linked Datasets in CKAN."
Connected Histories
Connected Histories: "British History Sources, 1500-1900
Connected Histories brings together a range of digital resources related to early modern and nineteenth century Britain with a single federated search that allows sophisticated searching of names, places and dates, as well as the ability to save, connect and share resources within a personal workspace.
Connected Histories is a not-for-profit project. We welcome proposals for new content."
Connected Histories brings together a range of digital resources related to early modern and nineteenth century Britain with a single federated search that allows sophisticated searching of names, places and dates, as well as the ability to save, connect and share resources within a personal workspace.
Connected Histories is a not-for-profit project. We welcome proposals for new content."
SCA IPR and Licensing module
SCA IPR and Licensing module: "This IPR and Licensing module has been developed by the Strategic Content Alliance for staff working in public sector bodies to introduce to them the concepts of copyright and other Intellectual Property Rights and how they might deal with the rights and licensing issues associated with the curation and creation of digital content.
The module has been divided into 6 learning objects divided into key themes:
1) Introduction to IPR and Licensing
2) Creative Commons Licences
3) Orphan Works and Risk Management
4) Digital Economy Act
5) Accessing and Using Third Party Content
6) Protecting and Managing Rights"
The module has been divided into 6 learning objects divided into key themes:
1) Introduction to IPR and Licensing
2) Creative Commons Licences
3) Orphan Works and Risk Management
4) Digital Economy Act
5) Accessing and Using Third Party Content
6) Protecting and Managing Rights"
SCA IPR and Licensing module
SCA IPR and Licensing module: "his IPR and Licensing module has been developed by the Strategic Content Alliance for staff working in public sector bodies to introduce to them the concepts of copyright and other Intellectual Property Rights and how they might deal with the rights and licensing issues associated with the curation and creation of digital content.
The module has been divided into 6 learning objects divided into key themes:
1) Introduction to IPR and Licensing
2) Creative Commons Licences
3) Orphan Works and Risk Management
4) Digital Economy Act
5) Accessing and Using Third Party Content
6) Protecting and Managing Rights"
The module has been divided into 6 learning objects divided into key themes:
1) Introduction to IPR and Licensing
2) Creative Commons Licences
3) Orphan Works and Risk Management
4) Digital Economy Act
5) Accessing and Using Third Party Content
6) Protecting and Managing Rights"
Final Report Online Consultation Published / News / News / Home - ePSIplus - Public Sector Information
Final Report Online Consultation Published / News / News / Home - ePSIplus - Public Sector Information: "Source: European Commission / Information Society
The final report on the online consultation on the PSI Directive has been published.
Luxembourg, 25 March 2011
(by Ton Zijlstra)
In the last months of 2010 an online consultation took place about the PSI Directive, its impact and the type of amendments the various stakeholders think are needed. The final report on this consultation is now available. With almost 600 responses to the consultation, or 15 times more than the 2008 consultation it is clear that PSI re-use is a topic that is getting a lot of attention. Responses came from 37 states, the majority from 11 EU member states (with Germany forming the largest group of responses). Five Member States entered official responses: Belgium, France, Denmark, UK, Netherlands.
Earlier we already reported on the publication of all the reactions received.
The final report on the online consultation is embedded below in full (and can be downloaded here, as well as from the EC DG Information Society PSI website in PDF)."
The final report on the online consultation on the PSI Directive has been published.
Luxembourg, 25 March 2011
(by Ton Zijlstra)
In the last months of 2010 an online consultation took place about the PSI Directive, its impact and the type of amendments the various stakeholders think are needed. The final report on this consultation is now available. With almost 600 responses to the consultation, or 15 times more than the 2008 consultation it is clear that PSI re-use is a topic that is getting a lot of attention. Responses came from 37 states, the majority from 11 EU member states (with Germany forming the largest group of responses). Five Member States entered official responses: Belgium, France, Denmark, UK, Netherlands.
Earlier we already reported on the publication of all the reactions received.
The final report on the online consultation is embedded below in full (and can be downloaded here, as well as from the EC DG Information Society PSI website in PDF)."
Topic Report 'Local and Regional Data' Published / News / News / Home - ePSIplus - Public Sector Information
Topic Report 'Local and Regional Data' Published / News / News / Home - ePSIplus - Public Sector Information: "Topic Report 27 'Local and Regional Data' is now available.
Luxembourg, 31 March 2011
(by Ton Zijlstra)
A new Topic Report is now available, titled 'Local and Regional Data'. Written by Rob Davies, this is the 27th and final report produced under the 2009-2011 service contract for the ePSI platform. The series of regular reports will be continued in the coming 2 years.
This report describes the recent progress being made in improving access to local government data for re-use, catalyzed by Open Data initiatives, reflecting some of the mechanisms which are being deployed. It summarises some apparent issues which remain to be resolved and outlined some initiatives and possible ways of improving discovery and access across localities and borders.
The report is also embedded below for browsing and downloading."
Luxembourg, 31 March 2011
(by Ton Zijlstra)
A new Topic Report is now available, titled 'Local and Regional Data'. Written by Rob Davies, this is the 27th and final report produced under the 2009-2011 service contract for the ePSI platform. The series of regular reports will be continued in the coming 2 years.
This report describes the recent progress being made in improving access to local government data for re-use, catalyzed by Open Data initiatives, reflecting some of the mechanisms which are being deployed. It summarises some apparent issues which remain to be resolved and outlined some initiatives and possible ways of improving discovery and access across localities and borders.
The report is also embedded below for browsing and downloading."
JISC Digitisation Programme » Presentations – New Strategies for Digital Content
JISC Digitisation Programme » Presentations – New Strategies for Digital Content: "JISC hosted the New Strategies for Digital Content conference in London on March 18 2011.
The event looked at two themes
the need for institutions to develop the necessary skills and strategies to embed digitisation within institutional strategies and practices as well as devise effective business models for the long term sustainability of digitised content
the need to break down silos of content by clustering existing and complementary digitised resources and enhancing their offerings, thus making them more relevant and usable for target users
Presentations and links related to the day are below."
The event looked at two themes
the need for institutions to develop the necessary skills and strategies to embed digitisation within institutional strategies and practices as well as devise effective business models for the long term sustainability of digitised content
the need to break down silos of content by clustering existing and complementary digitised resources and enhancing their offerings, thus making them more relevant and usable for target users
Presentations and links related to the day are below."
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » "JISC CETIS 2011 Informal Horizon Scan"
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » "JISC CETIS 2011 Informal Horizon Scan": "This report outlines some technology trends and issues of interest and relevance to CETIS. It should be seen as a set of un-processed perceptions rather than the product of a formal process; a great deal of ground is not scanned in this paper and it should be understood that no formal prioritisation process was undertaken."
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Preservation of Digitized Books and Other Digital Content Held by Cultural Heritage Organizations
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Preservation of Digitized Books and Other Digital Content Held by Cultural Heritage Organizations: "In one response to this need to develop models of digital preservation, the NEH and IMLS awarded a grant to Portico, in partnership with Cornell University Library, through the 'Advancing Knowledge: The IMLS/NEH Digital Partnership grant program' to develop a practical model for how preservation can be accomplished for digitized books. Through this initiative and other efforts, Portico had the opportunity to discuss digital collections and their long-term preservation with 27 cultural heritage organizations. In addition, Cornell University Library provided significant samples of content to analyze. Out of this research and the extensive experience in preservation at both Portico and Cornell University Library, we developed a model for the preservation of digitized books and other 'document like' digital content at cultural heritage organizations."
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