May 23, 2013

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New From Cross Ref Labs: First Public Release of “pdf-extract”

Filed by on April 18, 2012
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From the CrossTech Blog: CrossRef Labs is happy to announce the first public release of “pdf-extract” an open source set of tools and libraries for extracting citation references (and, eventually, other semantic metadata) from PDFs. We first demonstrated this tool to CrossRef members at our annual meeting last year. See the pdf-extract labs page for [...]

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LYRASIS Launches FOSS4LIB to Provide Guidance to Libraries about Open Source Software

Filed by on January 23, 2012

From a LYRASIS Announcement: LYRASIS is pleased to announce the launch of its FOSS4LIB (Free/Open Source Software for Libraries), a website dedicated to providing guidance about open source software for the library community. [Clip] FOSS4LIB offers a set of Decision Support Tools for the library community to assess open source readiness and related decisions. The [...]

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