Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data

Purpose

1. Act as a central point of reference and support for people interested in open bibliographic data

2. Identify relevant projects and practices. Promote best practices as well as legal and technical standards for making data open (such as the Open Knowledge Definition).

3. Act as a hub for the development and maintenance of low cost, community driven projects related to open bibliographic data.

Members

• Dan Brickley, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam / FOAF Project

• John Buckman, BookMooch

• Isabel Holroyd, biab online ‑ the british & irish archaeological bibliography

• Karen Coyle, Open Library
• Patrick Danowski, CERN Library

• Jonathan Gray, Open Knowledge Foundation + University of London

• Stefanie Grunow, German National Library of Economics (ZBW)
• Christopher Gutteridge, EPrints
• Bernhard Haslhofer, University of Vienna

• Christian Hauschke, Bibliothek der Fachhochschule Hannover

• Lambert Heller, TIB/UB Hannover

• Patrick Hochstenbach, Ghent University Library
• Tim Hubbard, Sanger Institute
• Philip Hunter, University of Edinburgh
• Ian Ibbotson, Knowledge Integration Ltd
• Daniel Kinzler, Wikimedia Deutschland
• Lukas Koster, Head of Library Systems, University of Amsterdam

• Thomas Krichel, Long Island University + Novosibirsk State University + Open Library Society

• Joachim Neubert, German National Library of Economics (ZBW)
• Inge Van Nieuwerburgh, Ghent University Library
• John Mark Ockerbloom, University of Pennsylvania Libraries
• Felix Ostrowski, Hochschulbibliothekszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen

• Jim Pitman, U.C. Berkeley / Bibliographic Knowledge Network

• Patrick Peiffer, Europeana and National Library of Luxembourg
• Adrian Pohl, Hochschulbibliothekszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen
• Rufus Pollock, University of Cambridge + Open Knowledge Foundation
• Mathias Schindler, Wikimedia Deutschland

• Ross Singer, Talis

• Tim Spalding, Library Thing
• Owen Stephens, Open University

• Rob Styles, Talis

• Ed Summers, Library of Congress

• Jakob Voss, Verbundzentrale des GBV
• Paul Walk, UKOLN

• James Weinheimer, The American University of Rome

• Anne Welsh, University College London

• John Price Wilkin, HathiTrust / University of Michigan

• Sara Wingate Gray, Open Knowledge Foundation and University College London

• Ben O'Steen http://benosteen.wordpress.com

• Anders Söderbäck, National Library of Sweden

Participate

• To participate in the group's activities, please join http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-bibliography.

• To request to join the Working Group, please drop us an email introducing yourself and saying (i) why you want to join the working group and (ii) what you intend to contribute.

Events

• The regular Meeting takes place every Monday from 15.00-17.00 GMT.

• See the Open Bibliographic Data Calendar for further Details.

Related links

• See: http://knowledgeforge.net/okfn/tasks/ticket/243

Research

Tools

• http://about.scriblio.net/ - Scriblio (formerly WPopac) is an award winning, free, open source CMS and OPAC with faceted searching and browsing features based on WordPress. Scriblio is a project of Plymouth State University, supported in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

  • Not clear what data structure is (e.g. does it have FRBR, versioning etc?)

• http://search.cpan.org/~voj/PICA-Record/ can be used to extract bibliographic data from PICA-catalogs, including BSZ, HeBIS, GBV, DNB, ZDB

Formats

• http://www.bibkn.org/bibjson/index.html - BibJSON: A flexible, JSON-based data format specification for exchange of bibliographic records.

Services

• http://3lib.org - a set of freely available bibliographic data used in

• http://www.ckan.net/group/bibliographic - another registry of open bibliographic data

• http://authorclaim.org - a free author registration service using

• http://ariw.org - a free dataset of institution identifiers

• http://people.bibkn.org/ - BKN People: An open repository, web services interface, and website for data identifying and describing academic authors