Open Databetabib

Europe’s national librarians support Open Data licensing

Sep

2011

Glädjande att läsa! What does that mean in practice? It means that the datasets describing all the millions of books and texts ever published in Europe – the title, author, date, imprint, place of publication and so on, which exists in the vast library catalogues of Europe – will become increasingly accessible for anybody to ...

Open Linked Data and Europeana and LIBRIS 1

Dec

2010

Jag nöjer mig med att citera följande angående ett tidigare inlägg om LIBRIS som Linked data och att vara med i flera sammanhang. Open Means Open The ethos of Open Linked Data is to enable the widest possible use of data. The current non-commercial clause in the data provider agreements must be removed in order ...

Open Bibliographic Meta-Data

Nov

2010

Häromdagen skrev JISC Information Environment Team ett blogginlägg med titeln ”What does open bibliographic meta-data mean for academic libraries”. At JISC we think there are some intriguing benefits from taking the open approach to bibliographic metadata. We think it will maximise the possibilities for reusing the metadata to develop new and innovative services for librarians, ...

KB && OCLC == epic fail 3

Nov

2010

The highest form of fail known to man. Reaching this level of fail means only one thing: You must die, or the world will fail itself due to such an extreme level of failage. Epic fail enligt Urban dictionary Man förstår av definitionen ovan att det är ganska dåligt med epic fail. KB:s och OCLC ...