Open Bibliography Workshop
On May 6th at the London Knowledge Lab, the JISC Open Bibliography project held a workshop on open bibliographic data. Discussion and debate during the day ranged over both technical and strategic issues, including:
- The need for stable identifiers to refer to data (such as the BNB data released by the British Library[1])
- Mechanisms for keeping data sets up to date (such as the incremental data releases from PubMed)
- Approaches to exposing RDF data in a simpler JSON format
- The cost of sustaining the current data sets hosted in Bibliographica[2].
In the afternoon the workshop looked at the latest data release obtained by the project (over 19 million records from PubMed), as well as discussing the possibilities and practicalities of machine-based disambiguation and 'sameness' between records.
A full report on the workshop, as well as further information about Open Bibliography is available from http://openbiblio.net/.
