From a Collections Trust Announcement: The UK’s first openly-available public libraries contact database has gone live as a result of a major data development project initiated by the Collections Trust, a not-for profit organisation which promotes excellence in collections and adds value for their users. The information is freely available on the Government’s data.gov.uk database. [...]
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UK: First Openly-Available Public Libraries Contact Database Now Available from Collections Trust
Filed by Gary Price on April 2, 2012
Filed Under: Data Sets, Libraries and Librarians, Library Organizations Tagged With: Collections Trust, Public Libraries, UK
JISC and Other UK Organizations Call For All UK Metadata to Be Openly Accessible
Filed by Gary Price on July 12, 2011
From a JISC Announcement: Unlocking the descriptive information or metadata about digital content, articles, books and research is the key to making it more useful, according to the JISC-funded resource discovery taskforce as it embarks on a new programme of work. If all UK metadata was made openly accessible, the taskforce says, then the resources [...]
Filed Under: Info Organization and Cataloging, Metadata Tagged With: British Library, BUFVC, Collections Trust, Digital Curation Centre, Disovery (JISC Programme), Edina, JISC, Mimas, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Wales, Open Bibliography Project, Owen Stephens Consultancy, RIN, RLUK, Royal Holloway University of London, SCONUL, The National Archives, UKOLN, University College London, University of Southampton
