The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending
The Bibliographic Reference Ontology is an ontology for describing bibliographic records (as subclasses of frbr:Work) and bibliographic references. It forms part of SPAR, a suite of Semantic Publishing and Referencing Ontologies.
Press Release:OCLC and EBSCO to enhance discovery services through data exchange. OCLC and EBSCO Publishing have expanded their partnership to enhance the discovery experience for users of WorldCat Local and the EBSCO Discovery Service through an expanded data exchange agreement. The new agreement will create more value for libraries that subscribe to services from OCLC and EBSCO.
If you’re a designer or developer, you’ve probably heard about Git, and you might know that it has become immensely popular, especially among the open source community. Though it may seem cryptic at first, this version control system could change the way you work with text, whether you’re writing code, or a novel.
This article covers why version control is important, how to install the Git version control system, and how to get started with your first repository. Once you start using Git, you’ll want to throw everything into it, from full-blown apps to blog post drafts, because it’s so easy and versatile.
This blog post is to introduce the first four ontologies of SPAR, the Semantic Publishing and Referencing Ontologies, an integrated ecosystem of generic ontologies.
We have identified ten principles that provide a lens to evaluate the extent to which government data is open and accessible to the public. The list is not exhaustive, and each principle exists along a continuum of openness. The principles are completeness, primacy, timeliness, ease of physical and electronic access, machine readability, non-discrimination, use of commonly owned standards, licensing, permanence and usage costs.
In spite of all the answers the internet has given us, its full potential to transform our lives remains the great unknown. Here are the nine key steps to understanding the most powerful tool of our age…
A story about the Semantic Web Transcript, interview bios, and other info on kateray.net Interviews with: Tim Berners-Lee Clay Shirky Chris Dixon David Weinberger Nova Spivack Jason Shellen Lee Feigenbaum John Hebeler Alon Halevy David Karger Abraham Bernstein Kate Ray is a recently-graduated NYU journalism/psychology student, currently working on kommons.com
"Libraries were once the center of the information universe. Fifteen years ago, if I had told you about the coming internet, you would have assumed that libraries would have a prominent place on it. They don't.
Libraries, including WorldCat, rarely show up in web searches, even for books. I lay the blame squarely at the wrong-headed decision to keep library data off the "real web" and to push WorldCat as a "aggregation point" for nobody.
Berlin Academic – so heißt der neue Wissenschaftsverlag, dessen Gründung der Berlin Verlag heute bekannt gibt.
Auf einer neu errichteten Online-Plattform veröffentlicht Berlin Academic sein Programm nach Open-Access-Prinzipien und unter Creative-Commons-Lizenzen. Gleichzeitig werden sämtliche Titel über Print on Demand sowie in verschiedenen E-Book-Formaten vertrieben.
MORE than 65,000 19th-century works of fiction from the British Library’s collection are to be made available for free downloads by the public from this spring.
This Linked Data Horizon Scan was commissioned from Paul Miller of the Cloud of Data by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The work was intended to provide an overview of current developments with respect to Linked Data, and to make a series of recommendations to JISC and the wider community.