Im Rahmen der Open-Access-Bewegung haben Bibliotheken begonnen, die (Meta-)Daten aus Bibliothekskatalogen der Allgemeinheit zur Verfügung zu stellen. Das BSZ stellt mit Zustimmung der beteiligten Bibliotheken in Zukunft auch Katalogdaten aus dem Südwestdeutschen Bibliotheksverbund bereit.
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.
A project being undertaken by Curtis+Cartwright with JISC funding in 2009, exploring the legal issues associated with the sharing and reuse of library catalogue records.
You can use this website to clarify and advance your understanding of what you are entitled to do with the bibliographic records which you hold within your institutional library catalogue.
Sie predigen anderen Wasser und trinken Wein. Vorne hui, hinten pfui. Die deutschen Bibliotheken spielen sich auf der Bühne als Anwälte des frei zugänglichen wissenschaftlichen Wissens im Interesse ihrer Benutzer auf, aber hinter den Kulissen agieren sie gegen Open Access (OA), wenn ihre eigenen Interessen tangiert sind, oder sie ignorieren die Bedürfnisse ihrer Kunden.
Dewey.info is an experimental space for linked DDC data. The initial data set available is a
linked data version of the DDC Summaries in nine languages. The intention of the dewey.info prototype
is to be a platform for Dewey data on the Web.
The Library of Congress Authorities and Vocabularies service enables both humans and machines to programmatically access authority data at the Library of Congress via URIs.
Talis, the UK market leader in providing academic and public library solutions, and LibLime, the leader in open solutions for libraries, are pleased to announce a partnership to make available over five million bibliographic records to the library community on the ‡biblios.net platform.
‡biblios.net is a web-based original and copy cataloging tool with built in federated search of any Z39.50 target (via an integrated search registry with over 2000 targets - or by adding your own) and a large (30 million strong) shared database of catalog records. This means that you can visit ‡biblios.net and benefit from the work of other catalogers who have gone before you. You can also edit and contribute to the database without any restrictions.