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New Issue of JISC Inform Features Interview with Harvard’s Robert Darnton About Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
| Academic Libraries, Data Files, Interviews, Lecture, Libraries, New Issue, Profiles, Public Libraries, Publishing, School Libraries, Video Recordings
Issue 33 (Spring 2012) of JISC Inform was released earlier today. Direct to Complete Table of Contents Articles Include: Digital Public Library of America “Robert Darnton, director of the University Library at Harvard, explains his vision of the Digital Public Library of America” The article also includes links to video of Darnton’s JISC/SCONUL Lecture in […]
From the Open Knowledge Foundation Blog: Europeana has recently released a new version of its Linked Data Pilot, data.europeana.eu. We now publish data for 2.4 million objects under an open metadata licence: CC0, the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication.[Clip] After several months we have thus released a second version of data.europeana.eu. Though still a pilot, […]
Announcing DM2E (Digitised Manuscripts to Europena): Exploring the Possibilities of Linked Open Data in Cultural heritage
| Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, News
From the Open Knowledge Foundation Blog: The Open Knowledge Foundation is delighted to announce that it will be leading the community work for a three-year EU funded project entitled Digitised Manuscripts to Europena (DM2E). The project consortium, which includes academic institutions, NGOs and commercial partners, will be led by Professor Stefan Gradmann at the Humboldt […]
From the In Custodia Legis (Law Library of Congress Blog): As part of the Law Library of Congress’ Law.gov project, we are consulting with the great minds behind the id.loc.gov linked data service of the Library of Congress to research whether a linked data version of the Law schedule of the Library of Congress Classification system, […]
Video: Columbia U. Libraries "Free Your Metadata" Seminar Now Available
| Data Files, Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Publishing, Resources, Video Recordings
The program, “Free Your Metadata: A Concrete Action Plan” runs 73 minutes and was recorded on February 10, 2012 Direct to Video (via YouTube) Presenters Seth van Hooland Chair in Digital Information at the Information and Communication Science Department of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium Max De Wilde PhD student and teaching assistant […]
Title OpenART: Open Metadata for Art Research at the Tate Author by Julie Allinson Source Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (February/March 2012; Vol. 38 No. 3) From the Introduction OpenART (http://yorkdl.wordpress.com/category/openart) was a six-month project funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the United Kingdom under their Infrastructure […]
What is Linked Open Data? Europeana Launches Linked Open Data Pilot and Animation
| Data Files, Libraries, National Libraries, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Reports, Resources
via LIBER: Linked Open Data is gaining traction in the information world right now. Europeana has just launched an animation to explain what it is and why it’s a good thing, both for users and for data providers. Europeana is facilitating developments in Linked Open Data by publishing data for 2.4 million objects for the […]
New: Issue 16 of the The Code4Lib Journal is Now Online
| Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users
Direct to The Code4Lib Journal (Issue 16) Table-of-Contents Includes abstracts for all article. Articles Include: Creating a Seamless Cross-Platform Online Experience for Mobile Users by Katherine Lynch HTML5 Microdata and Schema.org by Jason Ronallo Using VuFind, XAMPP, and Flash Drives to Build an Offline Library Catalog for Use in a Liberal Arts in Prison Program […]
New Issue Alert: IFLA Journal (37.4) Now Available Online, Free
| Associations and Organizations, Data Files, New Issue, Patrons and Users, Resources
Direct to Full Text (82 pages; PDF) Articles Include: + ‘‘As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it’’ + 65+: Engaging underserved patrons – a success story! + Key skills and competencies of a new generation of LIS professionals + Finding film resources: Challenges of formats, policies and […]
Full Text: Stanford Linked Data Workshop Technology Plan
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Scholarly Communications
The document was released on December 30, 2011. From the Introduction of the Plan: This is a plan for a multi-national, multi-institutional discovery environment built on Linked Open Data principles. If instantiated at several institutions, will demonstrate to end users the value of the Linked Data approach to recording machine operable facts about the products […]
