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eFoundations: LOCAH releases Linked Archives Hub dataset

2011-05-11T19:44:00.000+02:00

eFoundations: LOCAH releases Linked Archives Hub dataset: "LOCAH releases Linked Archives Hub dataset

Posted by PeteJ at 17:07 11 May 2011 in Linked Data , Metadata , Resource Discovery , Semantic Web | Permalink

The LOCAH project, one of the two JISC-funded projects to which I've been contributing, this week announced the availability of an initial batch of data derived from a small subset of the Archives Hub EAD data as linked data. The homepage for what we have called the 'Linked Archives Hub' dataset is http://data.archiveshub.ac.uk/"

Minimum Viable Record? « The Open Library Blog

2011-05-11T19:37:00.000+02:00

Minimum Viable Record? « The Open Library Blog: "Minimum Viable Record?
By George Oates
Having worked more closely with bibliographic data than I had ever expected to over the last couple of years, I still can’t quite believe how complicated it can be. I keep holding tight something Karen Coyle told me when I first started at Open Library, that “library metadata is diabolically rational.”"

Open data from Fukushima « Ivan’s private site

2011-05-10T17:16:00.000+02:00

Open data from Fukushima « Ivan’s private site: "Open data from Fukushima
Filed under: Work Related,Semantic Web — Ivan Herman @ 10:35
Tags: SPARQL, Resource Description Framework, Linked Open Data
This is just an extended tweet… Masahide Kanzaki has just posted an announcement on the LOD mailing list on releasing some data he collected on the radioactivity levels on different places in Japan, enriched with metadata (e.g., geo data or time). Though the original data were in PDF, the results are integrated in RDF with a SPARQL endpoint. He also added some visualization endpoint that gives a simple visualization of the SPARQL query results:"

Inserting data from a SPARQL endpoint into a relational database - bobdc.blog

2011-05-10T17:14:00.000+02:00

Inserting data from a SPARQL endpoint into a relational database - bobdc.blog: "Inserting data from a SPARQL endpoint into a relational database
27 April 2011

Via XML.
Retrieval of triples from relational databases is a popular topic in the semantic web world, but I was recently wondering how much trouble it would be to go in the opposite direction: to retrieve data from a SPARQL endpoint and load it into a relational database. It wasn't much trouble at all. When you retrieve the results in the SPARQL query results XML format, a straightforward XSLT spreadsheet can convert it into the necessary SQL INSERT statements. I was able to automate the data retrieval, conversion to INSERT statements, and actual insertion into a MySQL database with a three-line batch file that used no Windows-specific tricks, so I'm sure it would work on Linux just as well."

blog.aksw.org » Blog Archive » LinkedGeoData Release 2

2011-05-10T17:12:00.000+02:00

blog.aksw.org » Blog Archive » LinkedGeoData Release 2: "LinkedGeoData Release 2

April 27, 2011 - 6:32 pm by ThomasRiechert - One comment »
The AKSW research group is happy to announce a new release of LinkedGeoData!
The aim of the LinkedGeoData (LGD) project is to make the OpenStreetMap (OSM) datasets easily available as RDF. As such the main target audience is the Semantic Web community, however it may turn out to be useful to a much larger audience. Additionally, we are providing interlinking with DBpedia and GeoNames and integration of class labels from translatewiki and icons from the Brian Quinion Icon Collection.

The result is a rich, open, and integrated dataset which we hope to be useful for research and application development. The datasets can be publicly accessed via downloads, Linked Data, and SPARQL-endpoints. We have also launched an experimental “Live-SPARQL-endpoint” that is synchronized with the minutely updates from OSM whereas the changes to our store are republished as RDF."

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open Data Search: finding useful datasets, worldwide

2011-05-10T17:07:00.000+02:00

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open Data Search: finding useful datasets, worldwide: "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."

Go To Hellman: Open Access eBooks, Part 3. Business Models for Creation

2011-05-10T16:46:00.002+02:00

Go To Hellman: Open Access eBooks, Part 3. Business Models for Creation: "Open Access eBooks, Part 3. Business Models for Creation
Here's the third section of my draft of a book chapter for a book edited by No Shelf Required's Sue Polanka. I previously posted the introduction; and What does Open Access mean for eBooks subsequent posts will cover Open Access E-Books in Libraries. Note that while the blog always uses 'ebook' as one word, the book will use the hyphenated form, 'e-book'. The comments on the second section prompted me to make significant revisions, which I have posted."

Go To Hellman: Open Access eBooks, Part 2. What does Open Access mean for e-books?

2011-05-10T16:46:00.001+02:00

Go To Hellman: Open Access eBooks, Part 2. What does Open Access mean for e-books?: "Open Access eBooks, Part 2. What does Open Access mean for e-books?
Here's the second section of my draft of a book chapter for a book edited by No Shelf Required's Sue Polanka. I previously posted the introduction; subsequent posts will include sections on Business Models for Open Access E-Books, and Open Access E-Books in Libraries. Note that while the blog always uses 'ebook' as one word, the book will use the hyphenated form, 'e-book'. The comments on the first section have been really good; please don't stop!"

Go To Hellman: Open Access eBooks, Part 1

2011-05-10T16:46:00.000+02:00

Go To Hellman: Open Access eBooks, Part 1: "Open Access eBooks, Part 1
I've been working on on a book chapter for a book edited by No Shelf Required's Sue Polanka. My chapter covers 'Open Access E-Books'. Over the next week or two, I'll be posting drafts for the chapter on the blog. Many readers know things that I don't about this area, and I would be grateful for their feedback and corrections. Today, I'll post the introduction, subsequent posts will include sections on Types of Open Access E-Books, Business Models for Open Access E-Books, and Open Access E-Books in Libraries. Note that while the blog always uses 'ebook' as one word, the book will use the hyphenated form, 'e-book'."

Spanish Cadastral Mass Download Service Launched / News / News / Home - ePSIplus - Public Sector Information

2011-05-10T16:40:00.000+02:00

Spanish Cadastral Mass Download Service Launched / News / News / Home - ePSIplus - Public Sector Information: "A new massive download option for data on 75 million properties has been launched by the Spanish Cadastre.

Madrid, 6 April 2011,

(by Ton Zijlstra)

The Spanish Cadastre has launched a mass download service for cadastral data, allowing re-use by citizens and businesses for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. The official launch of the service (which we announced late March) was attended by over 300 people from almost 200 interested organizations.

Data on 75 million real estate properties in Spain can now be accessed for download an re-use, and ensures free access to all digital cartography material. This is a massive amount of data."

jhove2 / main / wiki / JHOVE2-2.0.0 Download – Bitbucket

2011-05-10T16:30:00.000+02:00

jhove2 / main / wiki / JHOVE2-2.0.0 Download – Bitbucket

inkdroid › DOIs as Linked Data

2011-05-10T16:06:00.000+02:00

inkdroid › DOIs as Linked Data: "DOIs as Linked Data
Last week Ross Singer alerted me to some pretty big news for folks interested in Library Linked Data: CrossRef has made the metadata for 46 million Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) available as Linked Data. DOIs are heavily used in the publishing space to uniquely identify electronic documents (largely scholarly journal articles). CrossRef is a consortium of roughly 3,000 publishers, and is a big player in the academic publishing marketplace.

So practically what this means is that all the places in the scholarly publishing ecosystem where DOIs are present (caveat below), it’s now possible to use the Web to retrieve metadata associated with that electronic document. Say you’ve got a DOI in the database backing your institutional repository:"

Automatic subject cataloging at the German National Library « all things cataloged

2011-05-10T16:02:00.000+02:00

Automatic subject cataloging at the German National Library « all things cataloged: "Automatic subject cataloging at the German National Library
MAY 5
Posted by Saskia
The German National Library has been working on a project for automatic subject classification that is expected to go live at the end of this year. This project, called PETRUS, is explained in detail in this article (in German). Part of the Library’s mission is the creation of the German National Bibliography, and to keep pace with the onslaught of (digital) resources more efficiency is needed. The main areas where human intellectual work is supported by machines in the PETRUS project are indexing, classification, metadata extraction and metadata generation."

Weibel Lines: Principles of Linked Data Recast

2011-04-15T20:08:00.000+02:00

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

2011-04-15T19:54:00.000+02:00

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

2011-04-15T19:51:00.000+02:00

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."

BibServer

2011-04-15T19:49:00.000+02:00

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."

Home - Bibliographica

2011-04-15T19:46:00.000+02:00

Home - Bibliographica: "Login with OpenID
Skip to content
Home
SPARQL
ISBN search
Collections
Search

Welcome to Bibliographica

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

2011-04-15T19:25:00.000+02:00

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."

Top 100 most popular RDF namespace prefixes | cygri’s notes on web data

2011-04-15T19:21:00.000+02:00

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."

State of the LOD Cloud

2011-04-15T19:20:00.000+02:00

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."

State of the LOD Cloud

2011-04-15T19:18:00.000+02:00

Connected Histories

2011-04-15T19:13:00.000+02:00

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."

SCA IPR and Licensing module

2011-04-15T19:12:00.000+02:00

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"

SCA IPR and Licensing module

2011-04-15T19:09:00.000+02:00

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"

Final Report Online Consultation Published / News / News / Home - ePSIplus - Public Sector Information

2011-04-15T18:59:00.000+02:00

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)."

Topic Report 'Local and Regional Data' Published / News / News / Home - ePSIplus - Public Sector Information

2011-04-15T18:57:00.000+02:00

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."

JISC Digitisation Programme » Presentations – New Strategies for Digital Content

2011-04-15T18:52:00.000+02:00

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."

DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » "JISC CETIS 2011 Informal Horizon Scan"

2011-04-15T18:49:00.000+02:00

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

2011-04-15T18:45:00.000+02:00

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."

eFoundations: RDTF metadata guidelines - Limp Data or Linked Data?

2011-04-11T18:18:00.000+02:00

eFoundations: RDTF metadata guidelines - Limp Data or Linked Data?: "Having just finished reading thru the 196 comments we received on the draft metadata guidelines for the UK RDTF I'm now in the process of wondering where we go next. We (Pete and I) have relatively little effort to take this work forward (a little less than 5 days to be precise) so it's not clear to me how best we use that effort to get something useful out for both RDTF and the wider community."

Fihrist - Home

2011-04-11T18:16:00.000+02:00

Fihrist - Home: "Welcome to Fihrist. This catalogue provides a searchable interface to more than 3,000 basic manuscript descriptions taken from printed and card catalogues of the collections of the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford and Cambridge University Library. It contains records for Arabic manuscripts at Oxford and both Arabic and Persian records for Cambridge. Fihrist was created with JISC funding by the OCIMCO project."

[1103.5046] From Linked Data to Relevant Data -- Time is the Essence

2011-04-11T18:09:00.000+02:00

[1103.5046] From Linked Data to Relevant Data -- Time is the Essence: "From Linked Data to Relevant Data -- Time is the Essence

Markus Kirchberg, Ryan K L Ko, Bu Sung Lee
(Submitted on 25 Mar 2011)
The Semantic Web initiative puts emphasis not primarily on putting data on the Web, but rather on creating links in a way that both humans and machines can explore the Web of data. When such users access the Web, they leave a trail as Web servers maintain a history of requests. Web usage mining approaches have been studied since the beginning of the Web given the log's huge potential for purposes such as resource annotation, personalization, forecasting etc. However, the impact of any such efforts has not really gone beyond generating statistics detailing who, when, and how Web pages maintained by a Web server were visited."

[1103.5043] An Empirical Study of Real-World SPARQL Queries

2011-04-11T18:08:00.000+02:00

[1103.5043] An Empirical Study of Real-World SPARQL Queries: "An Empirical Study of Real-World SPARQL Queries

Mario Arias, Javier D. Fernández, Miguel A. Martínez-Prieto, Pablo de la Fuente
(Submitted on 25 Mar 2011)
Understanding how users tailor their SPARQL queries is crucial when designing query evaluation engines or fine-tuning RDF stores with performance in mind. In this paper we analyze 3 million real-world SPARQL queries extracted from logs of the DBPedia and SWDF public endpoints. We aim at finding which are the most used language elements both from syntactical and structural perspectives, paying special attention to triple patterns and joins, since they are indeed some of the most expensive SPARQL operations at evaluation phase. We have determined that most of the queries are simple and include few triple patterns and joins, being Subject-Subject, Subject-Object and Object-Object the most common join types. The graph patterns are usually star-shaped and despite triple pattern chains exist, they are generally short."

[1103.4295] Linking Literature and Data: Status Report and Future Efforts

2011-04-11T18:07:00.000+02:00

[1103.4295] Linking Literature and Data: Status Report and Future Efforts: "Linking Literature and Data: Status Report and Future Efforts

Alberto Accomazzi
(Submitted on 22 Mar 2011)
In the current era of data-intensive science, it is increasingly important for researchers to be able to have access to published results, the supporting data, and the processes used to produce them. Six years ago, recognizing this need, the American Astronomical Society and the Astrophysics Data Centers Executive Committee (ADEC) sponsored an effort to facilitate the annotation and linking of datasets during the publishing process, with limited success. I will review the status of this effort and describe a new, more general one now being considered in the context of the Virtual Astronomical Observatory."

SUSHI Server - National Information Standards Organization

2011-04-11T18:00:00.000+02:00

SUSHI Server - National Information Standards Organization: "Author(s): Brinda Shah is a web programmer at H.W. Wilson..
doi: 10.3789/isqv23n1.2011.05
Citation: Shah, Brinda. SUSHI Implementation: The Server Side Experience. Information Standards Quarterly, 2011 Winter, 23(1):20-22.
Abstract: The author describes her experience in implementing the server side of the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) Protocol (ANSI/NISO Z39.93) at H.W. Wilson. She describes her learning curve with web services, the steps involved in implementing a SUSHI server for delivering usage data to clients. Tools used include J2EE framework, Apache Tomcat web application server, Axis SOAP engine, and Eclipse development tool."

SUSHI Client - National Information Standards Organization

2011-04-11T17:59:00.000+02:00

SUSHI Client - National Information Standards Organization: "Author(s): Omar Villa is IT Development Manager at Grupo Integra in Mexico City, Mexico.
doi: 10.3789/isqv23n1.2011.04
Citation: Villa, Omar. SUSHI Implementation: The Client Side Experience. Information Standards Quarterly, 2011 Winter, 23(1):18-19.
Abstract: The author describes his experience in implementing the client side of the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) Protocol (ANSI/NISO Z39.93) at Grupo Integra. He developed a module for their Kenvo Stats system, which generates statistics on the usage of electronic resources, to automate the retrieval of the COUNTER report statistics. After trying some PHP tools and a Java implementation, the final client was built using PHP Sockets."

Democratizing Information with Semantics » AI3:::Adaptive Information

2011-04-11T17:48:00.000+02:00

Democratizing Information with Semantics » AI3:::Adaptive Information: "Self-service Information Management for Knowledge Workers

Though I have alluded to it numerous times in my past writings [1], I think one of the most pervasive and important benefits from semantic technologies in the enterprise will come from the democratization of information. These benefits will arise mostly from a fundamental change in how we manage and consume information. A new “system” of semantic technologies is now largely available that can put the collection, assembly, organization, analysis and presentation of information directly in the hands of those who need it most — the consumers of information."

ResourceBlog Article: Create QR Codes on Wolfram|Alpha

2011-04-11T17:38:00.000+02:00

ResourceBlog Article: Create QR Codes on Wolfram|Alpha

Gather Evidence to Inform Changes in MARC Metadata Practices [OCLC - Activities]

2011-04-11T17:28:00.000+02:00

Gather Evidence to Inform Changes in MARC Metadata Practices [OCLC - Activities]

Mar 16: Metadata Harmonization (NISO/DCMI Webinar) - National Information Standards Organization

2011-04-11T17:26:00.000+02:00

Mar 16: Metadata Harmonization (NISO/DCMI Webinar) - National Information Standards Organization: "Metadata Harmonization: Making Standards Work Together"

Coyle's InFormation: Open Data II

2011-04-11T17:25:00.000+02:00

Coyle's InFormation: Open Data II

Coyle's InFormation: Open Data I

2011-04-11T17:24:00.000+02:00

Coyle's InFormation: Open Data I

Journal Article Tag Suite

2011-04-01T07:45:00.000+02:00

Journal Article Tag Suite: "Journal Article Tag Suite
... is an application of NISO Z39.96, which defines a set of XML elements and attributes for tagging journal articles and describes three article models.
The content on this site is the supporting documentation for the standard. JATS is a continuation of the NLM Archiving and Interchange DTD work begun in 2002 by NCBI."

Introducing UMBEL Version 1.00 - semanticweb.com

2011-02-20T00:17:00.000+01:00

Introducing UMBEL Version 1.00 - semanticweb.com

After four years of tinkering, Structured Dynamics and Ontotext are ready to announce the release of UMBEL version 1.00, the first production-grade release of the system. According to the article, UMBEL (Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer) “is primarily a reference ontology, which contains 28,000 concepts (classes and relationships) derived from the Cyc knowledge base. The reference concepts of UMBEL are mapped to Wikipedia, DBpedia ontology classes, GeoNames and PROTON.”

2010 Visualization Challenge

2011-02-20T00:13:00.000+01:00

2010 Visualization Challenge

An “ocean” composed of a single layer of molecules; an intricate depiction of an HIV particle as a study in orange and gray; a phantasmagoria of fungi; a video tracing the long-distance travels of items dumped in the trash in Seattle: The four first-place winners in this year's International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge grab your attention and draw you into unseen worlds in very different ways.

The Semantic Puzzle | Transforming spreadsheets into SKOS with Google Refine

2011-02-20T00:08:00.000+01:00

The Semantic Puzzle | Transforming spreadsheets into SKOS with Google Refine

CILIP | Cataloguing and Indexing Tools and resources - cataloguing, indexing and classification

2011-02-20T00:05:00.000+01:00

CILIP | Cataloguing and Indexing Tools and resources - cataloguing, indexing and classification

Professional tools and resources

A taxonomy of professional tools, resources and publications supporting traditional cataloguing, metadata manipulation, classification and indexing. All links point to professional articles, tools and resources that are either open access or licensed for free use by cataloguers.

This section is maintained by David Bennett.

Please contact David at david.bennett@port.ac.uk if you have any comments or suggestions.

DSPL: Dataset Publishing Language - Google Code

2011-02-19T23:46:00.000+01:00

DSPL: Dataset Publishing Language - Google Code

TILE | Text-Image Linking Environment

2011-02-19T23:17:00.001+01:00

TILE | Text-Image Linking Environment

The Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) is a web-based tool for creating and editing image-based electronic editions and digital archives of humanities texts.

This initial release of TILE features tools for importing and exporting transcript lines and images of text, an image markup tool, a semi-automated line recognizer that tags regions of text within an image, and plugin architecture to extend the functionality of the software.

Try The Sandbox » Download » More Info »

DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Library of Congress Funds Omeka + Neatline Project

2011-02-19T23:17:00.000+01:00

DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Library of Congress Funds Omeka + Neatline Project

Library of Congress Funds Omeka + Neatline Project

The Library of Congress has awarded $665,248 in funding to the Omeka + Neatline project.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

The Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia Library and the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University are pleased to announce a collaborative "Omeka + Neatline" initiative, supported by $665,248 in funding from the Library of Congress.

The Omeka + Neatline project's goal is to enable scholars, students, and library and museum professionals to create geospatial and temporal visualizations of archival collections using a Neatline toolset within CHNM's popular, open source Omeka exhibition platform. Neatline, a "contribution to interpretive humanities scholarship in the visual vernacular," is a project of the UVa Library Scholars' Lab, originally bolstered by a Start-Up Grant from the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities. Omeka is an award-winning web-publishing platform for the display of cultural heritage and scholarly collections and exhibits, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » DataMarket.com Launches with 100 Million Open Data Time Series – remains firmly commited to open data

2011-02-17T00:19:00.000+01:00

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » DataMarket.com Launches with 100 Million Open Data Time Series – remains firmly commited to open data

Using the bibliographica sparql API | Open Bibliography and Open Bibliographic Data

2011-02-17T00:18:00.000+01:00

Using the bibliographica sparql API | Open Bibliography and Open Bibliographic Data

TRLN Digitization Strategy Announcement [OCLC]

2011-02-17T00:16:00.000+01:00

TRLN Digitization Strategy Announcement [OCLC]: "DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 15 February 2011—This is the first formally published strategy for providing access to unpublished materials online based on an approach created by OCLC Research and the RLG Partnership.

This approach is described in a document titled, 'Well‐intentioned practice for putting digitized collections of unpublished materials online' and is the output of an 'Undue Diligence' invitational seminar held in the spring of 2010. During this event, OCLC Research convened a group of RLG Partner experts from archives, special collections and the law to develop and define streamlined, community-accepted procedures for managing copyright in the digital age that would cut costs and boost confidence in libraries' and archives' ability to increase visibility of and access to unpublished materials online. The group acknowledged that, although there is risk in digitizing materials that may be in copyright, this risk should be balanced with the harm to scholarship and society inherent in not making collections fully accessible. Based on this premise, they identified a practical approach to selecting collections, making decisions, seeking permissions, recording outcomes, establishing policy and working with future donors, which O"

Top 100 most popular RDF namespace prefixes | cygri’s notes on web data

2011-02-17T00:14:00.000+01:00

Will RDA kill MARC?

2011-02-17T00:00:00.000+01:00

http://pages.uoregon.edu/kelleym/KM_MWpresentation.pdf

SKOS Now Interoperates with OWL 2 » AI3:::Adaptive Information

2011-02-14T19:19:00.000+01:00

SKOS Now Interoperates with OWL 2 » AI3:::Adaptive Information

Web 3.0 Could Lead to E-Government That Anticipates Citizens’ Needs

2011-02-13T20:12:00.000+01:00

Web 3.0 Could Lead to E-Government That Anticipates Citizens’ Needs: "“Web 3.0” is an IT buzzword that’s appearing with greater frequency among the state and local government IT community. Explanations differ as to what it means in terms of implementation, but the overarching concept is “machine-to-machine” communication on the Internet."

What SKOS-XL adds to SKOS - bobdc.blog

2011-02-13T20:00:00.000+01:00

What SKOS-XL adds to SKOS - bobdc.blog: "Extra flexibility for label metadata.
In my first few glances at SKOS eXtension for Labels, I didn't quite get it. Recently, though, while looking at a client's requirements document at TopQuadrant, when I saw that they wanted to attach metadata to individual terms, I started modeling this in my head and then I realized I didn't need to: SKOS-XL already had."

Special Online Collection: Dealing with Data

2011-02-13T19:56:00.000+01:00

Special Online Collection: Dealing with Data: "In the 11 February 2011 issue, Science joins with colleagues from Science Signaling, Science Translational Medicine, and Science Careers to provide a broad look at the issues surrounding the increasingly huge influx of research data. This collection of articles highlights both the challenges posed by the data deluge and the opportunities that can be realized if we can better organize and access the data.

The Science cover (left) features a word cloud generated from all of the content from the magazine's special section.

Science is making access to this entire collection FREE (simple registration is required for non-subscribers)."

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Playing around with Open Linked Data: data.totl.net

2011-02-13T19:41:00.000+01:00

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Playing around with Open Linked Data: data.totl.net: "The following guest post is by Christopher Gutteridge, a Web & Systems Programmer and Open Data Architect at the University of Southampton. When he was young he wrote the “coffee stain” filter for GIMP, and is the developer of Graphite RDF PHP library & tools. He is a member of the OKF Working Group on Open Bibliographic Information.

I know that it’s best to practice a new technique before employing it on anything major. I also like over-engineering for its own sake. (Beware the Modeller!) That’s how I ended up building data.totl.net."

Home - ePSIplus - Public Sector Information

2011-02-13T19:29:00.000+01:00

Home - ePSIplus - Public Sector Information: "Europe's One-Stop Shop on Public Sector Information (PSI) Re-use

Working to Stimulate PSI Re-use

The aim of the ePSIplatform is to stimulate action, report developments and monitor progress towards a stronger and more transparent environment for the growth of national and European PSI re-use markets."

Official Google Blog: Register for Google I/O 2011

2011-02-13T19:27:00.000+01:00

Official Google Blog: Register for Google I/O 2011: "The focus of I/O 2011 will be all about the cloud, and feature the latest Google products and technologies including Android, Google Chrome, App Engine, Google Web Toolkit and Google APIs. There will be many opportunities to meet members of Google’s engineering teams and take deep dives into the technologies with more than 100 technical sessions, roundtables and more. The Developer Sandbox, which we introduced at I/O 2009, will be back, featuring developers from more than 100 companies to demo their apps, share their experiences and exchange ideas."

HEFCE Review of JISC

2011-02-13T19:24:00.000+01:00

1. This report sets out the findings and recommendations of the Review Group

chaired by Professor Sir Alan Wilson into the strategy, activities and effectiveness of the

Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The review’s terms of reference are at

Annex A and the Review Group membership is listed at Annex B.

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/aboutus/aboutjisc/JISCReview.pdf

China building a city for cloud computing | KurzweilAI

2011-02-13T19:15:00.000+01:00

China building a city for cloud computing | KurzweilAI

"Copy, paste, map" - O'Reilly Radar

2011-02-13T19:03:00.000+01:00

"Copy, paste, map" - O'Reilly Radar: "Data, data everywhere, and all too many spreadsheets to think.

Citizens have a new tool to visualize data and map it onto their own communities. Geospatial startup FortiusOne and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have teamed up to launch IssueMap.org. IssueMap is squarely aimed at addressing one of the biggest challenges that government agencies, municipalities and other public entities have in 2011: converting open data into information that people can distill into knowledge and insight.

IssueMap must, like the data it visualizes, be put in context. The world is experiencing an unprecedented data deluge, a reality that my colleague Edd Dumbill described as another 'industrial revolution' at last week's Strata Conference. The release of more data under the Open Government Directive issued by the Obama Administration has resulted in even more data becoming available. The challenge is that for most citizens, the hundreds of thousands of data sets available at Data.gov, or at state or city data catalogs, don't lead to added insight or utility in their every day lives. This partnership between FortiusOne and the FCC is an attempt to give citizens a mapping tool to make FCC data meaningful."

T H E H O R I Z O N R E P O R T 2 0 1 1 E D I T I O N

2011-02-13T18:54:00.000+01:00

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/HR2011.pdf

The internationally recognized series of Horizon

Reports is part of the New Media Consortium’s

Horizon Project, a comprehensive research venture

established in 2002 that identifies and describes

emerging technologies likely to have a large impact

over the coming five years on a variety of sectors

around the globe. This volume, the 2011 Horizon

Report, examines emerging technologies for their

potential impact on and use in teaching, learning,

and creative inquiry. It is the eighth in the annual

series of reports focused on emerging technology in

the higher education environment.

Shared Services in Cloud Computing | Digital Curation Centre

2011-02-13T18:47:00.000+01:00

Shared Services in Cloud Computing | Digital Curation Centre: "Today's announcement by HEFCE of funding for the development of cloud services in UK Higher Education will allow the DCC to develop some significant new services in the coming year. As well as deploying our own tools in the cloud infrastructure, we'll be developing advice and support for institutions considering use of the cloud for any and all aspects of research data management.This funding will also allow us to take forward many of the salient recommendations from the UK Research Data Service (UKRDS) project and intensify a number of our existing activities, such as the DCC roadshows. We'll be developing detailed plans in the next few weeks and expect to make a number of further announcements during and after that time.The DCC will be working closely with JISC, JANET, Eduserv and others to realise the benefits of this exciting but challenging programme.The full text of the announcement from HEFCE, containing details of all aspects of the programme, is here."

Tasty, New Sweet Tools Release » AI3:::Adaptive Information

2011-02-13T18:36:00.000+01:00

Tasty, New Sweet Tools Release » AI3:::Adaptive Information: "Sweet Tools, AI3‘s listing of semantic Web and -related tools, has just been released with its 17th update. The listing now contains more than 900 tools, nearly a 10% increase over the last version. Significantly the listing is also now presented via its own semantic tool, the structSearch sComponent, which is one of the growing parts to Structured Dynamics‘ open semantic framework (OSF).

So, we invite you to go ahead and try out this new Flex/Flash version with its improved"

SKOS Now Interoperates with OWL 2 » AI3:::Adaptive Information

2011-02-13T18:34:00.000+01:00

SKOS Now Interoperates with OWL 2 » AI3:::Adaptive Information: "n the semantic Web, arguably SKOS is the right vocabulary for representing simple knowledge structures [1] and OWL 2 is the right language for asserting axioms and ontological relationships. In the early days we chose a reliance on SKOS for the UMBEL reference concept ontology, because of UMBEL’s natural role as a knowledge structure. Most recently we also migrated UMBEL to OWL 2 to gain (among other reasons) the metamodeling advantages of “punning”, which allows us to treat things as either classes or instances depending on modeling needs, context and viewpoint [2].

But — until today — we could not get SKOS and OWL 2 to play together nicely. This meant we could not take full advantage of each language’s respective strengths.

Happily, that gap has now been closed. By action of a relatively minor change and the addition of a simple statement, SKOS more fully interoperates with OWL 2."

Library Management Services in the Cloud [OCLC]

2011-02-13T18:29:00.000+01:00

Library Management Services in the Cloud [OCLC]: "Presented at ALA Midwinter 2011, January 9, 2011

Listen as early members of the user community explain why they chose OCLC Web-scale Management Services and share their progress to-date.

Introduction [28 minutes]
Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO, and Andrew K. Pace Executive Director of Networked Services
Jason Griffey [9 minutes]
Head of Library Information Technology, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Jackie Beach [13 minutes]
Director, CPC Regional Libraries (North Carolina)
Michael Dula [12 minutes]
Director for Digital Initiatives and Technology Strategy, Pepperdine University Libraries
Discussion [17 minutes]"

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open Public Data: Then What? – Part 2

2011-02-06T20:52:00.001+01:00

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open Public Data: Then What? – Part 2: "One may believe that one of the three scenarios for the future of Open Public Data that I discussed in my previous post is more likely than the other. The problem is, why? What actions, decisions, or conditions, are more likely to get us going along one road rather than the other? Can we go wrong on one count, and right on another? I believe we have hardly begun to figure that out."

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open Public Data: Then What? – Part 1

2011-02-06T20:52:00.000+01:00

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open Public Data: Then What? – Part 1: "We tend to assume that the opening up of public data will only produce positive outcomes for individuals, for society and the economy. But the opposite may be true. We should start thinking further ahead on the possible consequences of releasing public data, and how we can make sure they are mostly positive."

wg/humanities - Open Knowledge Foundation Wiki

2011-02-06T20:49:00.000+01:00

wg/humanities - Open Knowledge Foundation Wiki: "Working Group on Open Resources in the Humanities
Purpose
Act as a central point of reference and support for people interested in open resources in humanities research and teaching.
Possible Projects
A list of free/open source software tools for facilitating research and teaching in the humanities (including and linking to existing directories).
Maintaining a registry of collections of public domain and open access humanities resources on CKAN.
Guide to using structured text formats when publishing or making available textual databases or other resources.
Guide on best practices for using licenses and other legal tools.
Created: 2008-06-30"

DigitalHumanities - Open Knowledge Foundation Wiki

2011-02-06T20:48:00.000+01:00

DigitalHumanities - Open Knowledge Foundation Wiki

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Europe’s Energy: a new mini-app to put the European energy targets into context

2011-02-06T20:45:00.000+01:00

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Europe’s Energy: a new mini-app to put the European energy targets into context: "The application aims to help to put European energy policy (including the 2020 energy targets) into context, building on the work we did at the Eurostat Hackday in London just before Christmas."

Nodalities » Blog Archive » Linked Spending Data – How and Why Bother Pt2

2011-02-06T20:27:00.000+01:00

Nodalities » Blog Archive » Linked Spending Data – How and Why Bother Pt2: "To help with this I am going to use, some of the excellent work that Stuart Harrison at Lichfield District Council has done in this area, as examples. Take a look at the spending data part of their site: spending.lichfielddc.gov.uk/. On the surface navigating your way around the site looking at council spend by type, subject, month, and supplier is the kind of experience a user would expect. Great for a website displaying information about a single council. "

Resource Discovery Taskforce

2011-02-06T20:16:00.000+01:00

Resource Discovery Taskforce: "We realise that the scale and complexity of the RDTF Vision work requires a robust management framework. Over the next eight months we’ll be working closely with Mimas to design and implement that framework. In this post Joy Palmer from Mimas shares the approach and ethos in carrying forward this work with us, and she also provides an overview of the management framework activities which will be taking place between now and July 2011. – Andy McGregor."

eFoundations: Metadata guidelines for the UK RDTF - please comment

2011-02-06T19:55:00.000+01:00

eFoundations: Metadata guidelines for the UK RDTF - please comment: "As promised last week, our draft metadata guidelines for the UK Resource Discovery Taskforce are now available for comment in JISCPress. The guidelines are intended to apply to UK libraries, museums and archives in the context of the JISC and RLUK Resource Discovery Taskforce activity.

The comment period will last two weeks from tomorrow and we have seeded JISCPress with a small number of questions (see below) about issues that we think are particularly worth addressing. Of course, we welcome comments on all aspects of the guidelines, not just where we have raised issues. (Note that you don't have to leave public comments in JISCPress if you don't want to - an email to me or Pete will suffice. Or you can leave a comment here.)

The guidelines recommend three approaches to exposing metadata (to be used individually or in combination), referred to as:

the community formats approach;
the RDF data approach;
the Linked Data approach."

Technical standards in education, Part 1: Introducing the educational standards

2011-02-06T19:41:00.001+01:00

Technical standards in education, Part 1: Introducing the educational standards

Cloud and industry, Part 1: PaaS best practices and patterns

2011-02-06T19:41:00.000+01:00

Cloud and industry, Part 1: PaaS best practices and patterns: "Summary: This article is the first part of a series on enabling cloud computing in industry solutions. This introduction covers basic cloud computing philosophy and industry solution knowledge. You will learn about the requirements and functions of three models to deliver industry solutions, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS), and how you can use best practices and patterns with the PaaS framework in particular to deploy and manage cloud computing solutions. The next articles in the series will discuss how cloud computing capabilities can be applied specifically to the chemical and petroleum and telecommunications domains."

Catalogablog: MapFAST

2011-02-06T19:16:00.000+01:00

Catalogablog: MapFAST: "MapFAST is a mashup prototype that uses a Google Maps interface to present FAST Geographic authority records. The prototype presents a different way to look at subject access to bibliographic records. It also demonstrates a strength of the subject faceting approach of FAST over coordinated subject headings."

Semantically Enhancing Collections of Library and Non-Library Content

2011-02-06T19:11:00.001+01:00

Semantically Enhancing Collections of Library and Non-Library Content: "Many digital libraries have not made the transition to semantic digital libraries, and often with good reason. Librarians and information technologists may not yet grasp the value of semantic mappings of bibliographic metadata, they may not have the resources to make the transition and, even if they do, semantic web tools and standards have varied in terms of maturity and performance. Selecting appropriate or reasonable classes and properties from ontologies, linking and augmenting bibliographic metadata as it is mapped to triples, data fusion and re-use, and considerations about what it means to represent this data as a graph, are all challenges librarians and information technologists face as they transition their various collections to the semantic web. This paper presents some lessons we have learned building small, focused semantic digital library collections that combine bibliographic and non-bibliographic data, based on specific topics. The tools map and augment the metadata to produce a collection of triples. We have also developed some prototype tools atop these collections which allow users to explore the content in ways that were either not possible or not easy to do with other library systems."

Semantically Enhancing Collections of Library and Non-Library Content

2011-02-06T19:11:00.000+01:00

Making Connections Real » AI3:::Adaptive Information

2011-02-06T19:09:00.000+01:00

Making Connections Real » AI3:::Adaptive Information: "We are only days away from releasing the first commercial version 1.00 of UMBEL (Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer) [1]. To recap, UMBEL has two purposes, both aimed to promote the interoperability of Web-accessible content. First, it provides a general vocabulary of classes and predicates for describing domain ontologies and external datasets. Second, UMBEL is a coherent framework of 28,000 broad subjects and topics (the “reference concepts”), which can act as binding nodes for mapping relevant content."

hangingtogether.org » Blog Archive » The Core of Bibliographic Description

2011-02-06T18:37:00.000+01:00

hangingtogether.org » Blog Archive » The Core of Bibliographic Description

When supercomputers meet the Semantic Web… - semanticweb.com

2011-01-26T18:58:00.000+01:00

When supercomputers meet the Semantic Web… - semanticweb.com: "Despite everything that has happened over the years, from technological advances to organisational wobbles, bankruptcies and buy-outs, the name retains a certain cachet. They make super computers! Their computers come (came) with seats and bubbling coolant systems and everything! To someone growing up with early examples of rudimentary computing in the home, Cray was the stuff of Tomorrow’s World, Bond villains, and more. This was what real computers were all about."

Microformats and RDFa deployment across the Web « Tripletalk

2011-01-26T18:55:00.000+01:00

Microformats and RDFa deployment across the Web « Tripletalk: "Microformats and RDFa deployment across the Web
Posted January 25, 2011
Filed under: Uncategorized |
I have presented on previous occasions (at Semtech 2009, SemTech 2010, and later at FIA Ghent 2010, see slides for the latter, also in ISWC 2009) some information about microformat and RDFa deployment on the Web. As such information is hard to come by, this has generated some interest from the audience. Unfortunately, Q&A time after presentations is too short to get into details, hence some additional background on how we obtained this data and what it means for the Web. This level of detail is also important to compare this with information from other sources, where things might be measured differently."

LITA Standards Task Force White Paper | ALA Connect

2011-01-26T18:54:00.000+01:00

LITA Standards Task Force White Paper | ALA Connect: "As part of the strategic initiatives, LITA believes it needs to be an active participant in the creation and adoption of standards that align with the library technology community. The LITA Executive Committee approved the creation of a LITA Standards Task Force in March, 2010. The Task Force was charged to:

● Explore and recommend strategies and initiatives LITA can implement to become more active in the creation and adoption of new technology related standards that align with the library community.

● Propose an organizational structure that will support and sustain LITA's increased involvement in the standards arena both within ALA and beyond."

Catalogablog: Metadata Scheme for the Publication and Citation of Research Data

2011-01-26T18:52:00.000+01:00

Catalogablog: Metadata Scheme for the Publication and Citation of Research Data: "The DataCite Metadata Scheme is a list of core metadata properties chosen for the accurate and consistent identification of data for citation and retrieval purposes, along with recommended use instructions. At a minimum, the mandatory metadata scheme properties must be provided at the time of identifier registration. Data centres and other submitters may also choose to use the optional properties to identify their data more clearly. This metadata scheme can fulfill several key functions in support of the larger goals of DataCite. Primarily these are:"

: IFLA World Report 2010 :

2011-01-26T18:35:00.000+01:00

: IFLA World Report 2010 :: "The World Report series is a biennial report series that reports on the state of the world in terms of freedom of access to information, freedom of expresion and related issues. The reports are available online at http://www.ifla.org/en/publications/iflafaife-world-report-series and can be downloaded free of charge. The 2010 Report has been designed as a customizable interactive electronic publication and can be accessed in different formats through the maps below:"

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » More library-related open data!

2011-01-23T22:59:00.000+01:00

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » More library-related open data!: "Open Knowledge Foundation Blog
More library-related open data!
January 5th, 2009
You may have heard that lcsh.info - which explored how Library of Congress Subject Headings could be represented as a Semantic Web application - was closed down last month.

The good news is that there are now two new projects publishing library-related open data:

http://ckan.net/package/read/iconclass
http://ckan.net/package/read/hud-library-usagedata"

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Introducing GetTheData.org: Ask and Answer Data Related Questions

2011-01-23T22:58:00.000+01:00

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Introducing GetTheData.org: Ask and Answer Data Related Questions: "Introducing GetTheData.org: Ask and Answer Data Related Questions
January 20th, 2011
The following post is by Tony Hirst, who has been working with Rufus Pollock of the Open Knowledge to create http://GetTheData.org/, a new question and answer site for data-related questions.

Where can I find a list of airports with their locations? Where can I find historical weather data? How do I find the county from a postcode or a state from a zipcode? How do I find a book title from its ISBN? What’s the best tool(s) for scraping data from websites? Is there a way to get RDF Linked Data in a format that you can use?"

Ebooks and Libraries: A Stream of Concerns | Information Wants To Be Free

2011-01-23T22:53:00.000+01:00

Ebooks and Libraries: A Stream of Concerns | Information Wants To Be Free

Go To Hellman: eBook Identifier Confusion Shakes Book Industry

2011-01-23T22:47:00.000+01:00

Go To Hellman: eBook Identifier Confusion Shakes Book Industry: "The Book Industry has been experiencing tectonic shifts as it moves from the solid foundation of print-based production and distribution to digital forms. The so-called 'supply chain' is a long-standing edifice of the book industry being shaken by the resulting quakes. One of the strings holding the supply chain together is the ISBN, and it has proven to be reasonably robust. Still, there's been enough 'damage' to the ISBN and the supply chain it holds together that many participants in the book industry have been concerned for its integrity. (I wrote about the situation in July.)"

DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography, Version 2

2011-01-23T22:39:00.000+01:00

DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography, Version 2: "Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography, Version 2
Version 2 of the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship as an XHTML website with live links to many included works. This selective bibliography includes over 500 articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding digital curation and preservation. All included works are in English. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License."

[1101.3186] Data Preservation in High Energy Physics

2011-01-23T22:37:00.000+01:00

[1101.3186] Data Preservation in High Energy Physics: "Data from high-energy physics (HEP) experiments are collected with significant financial and human effort and are in many cases unique. At the same time, HEP has no coherent strategy for data preservation and re-use, and many important and complex data sets are simply lost. In a period of a few years, several important and unique experimental programs will come to an end, including those at HERA, the b-factories and at the Tevatron. An inter-experimental study group on HEP data preservation and long-term analysis (DPHEP) was formed and a series of workshops were held to investigate this issue in a systematic way. The physics case for data preservation and the preservation models established by the group are presented, as well as a description of the transverse global projects and strategies already in place."

ALCTS E-Forum on Digital Preservation | Celeripedean

2011-01-23T22:35:00.000+01:00

ALCTS E-Forum on Digital Preservation | Celeripedean: "There was also a considerable amount of discussion around difficult file formats, especially challenges with video. It’s also really clear that a lot of people are trying to find ways to get institutional support and a sensible infrastructure for digital preservation activities. Creating relevant policies, effectively engaging administrators, and planning with few resources are clearly things all of those in this area have in common."

Personanondata: BISG eBook ISBN Study Findings Released

2011-01-23T22:21:00.000+01:00

Personanondata: BISG eBook ISBN Study Findings Released: "BISG eBook ISBN Study Findings Released
BISG held a meeting last Thursday to review the findings from the eBook ISBN study which I conducted for the group. BISG intends to use this study as a first step in defining what the industry should do to identify eBooks and eContent for the future."

Perceptions OCLC Membership Report [OCLC]

2011-01-23T21:31:00.000+01:00

Perceptions OCLC Membership Report [OCLC]: "OCLC releases new membership report: Perceptions of Libraries, 2010: Context and Community
DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 20 January 2011—Americans are using libraries a lot more as the economic downturn has impacted lives, careers and incomes. Americans see increased value in libraries and the value that libraries provide to their communities, and report even stronger appreciation of the value librarians bring to the information search experience, according to a new membership report by OCLC, a nonprofit library services and research organization.

Perceptions of Libraries, 2010: Context and Community is a follow-up to the 2005 Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources. The new report provides updated information and new insights into information consumers and their online information habits, preferences and perceptions. Particular attention was paid to how the current economic downturn has affected information-seeking behaviors and how those changes are reflected in the use and perception of libraries."