lobid-resources is a service which offers access to metadata about bibliographic resources (books, articles, pdfs etc.). Since the data has been released under a CC0-licence - making it Linked Open Data and thus contrasting the Linked Data released by other libraries - any interested party may download a complete dump of that linked data . The data is based on the latest exports released by the hbz in the form of RDF/ISO2709.
The data can be queried via a SPARQL-Endpoint.
The Bibliographic Knowledge Network (BKN or BibKN) is a loose coalition of partners funded by the NSF Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) Program. The mission is to build free tools and applications for researchers to distill, normalize, reconcile, publish, and analyze large open bibliographic datasets, and to develop a network of websites and webservices participating in this activity.
The digital literary and linguistic resources in the Oxford Text Archive and in the British National Corpus have been available to researchers throughout the world for several decades. Technical enhancements to the resource discovery infrastructure will allow wider dissemination of open metadata, will facilitate interaction with research infrastructures, and the knowledge and expertise achieved will be shared with the community.