Open Knowledge Conference

Open Bibliographic Data Workshop

The OKF Open Bibliographic Data Working Group, the JISC Open Bib project, the Bibliographic Knowledge Network and the hbz come together at OKCON 2011 in Berlin. Join us on Friday 1st july at 1530 CEST to be part of an exciting, world changing, epoch defining socio-technical hackathon.

by Peter Murray-Rust, Mark MacGillivray & Adrian Pohl on July 1st at 15:30 in Workshop II

ORGANISERS

Adrian Pohl – hbz, OKF
Peter Murray-Rust – University of Cambridge, OKF
Mark MacGillivray – University of Edinburgh, OKF

WHAT WE WILL DO

Call for bibliographic metadata to be open by default
Demonstrate and develop the software needed to support this
Increase engagement with people and groups in the community
Sketch out the roadmap and continue the journey to data liberation
Design (and make, if possible) the T-shirt

Work will be done via face to face and etherpad collaboration. Join in person or join us virtually – we will accommodate all as much as we can.

We have identified four areas of work – how much we get done on the day for each area will depend on the number and interests of the attendees:

TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT

Find and list sources to scrape data from
Interlinking existing linked open bibliographic data sources
Review the BibServer and Bibliographica software developments so far
Make a start learning how to write new ingesters for favourite sources

METADATA FORMATS

Exchanging approaches of representing bibliographic data in RDF
How best to handle complex content
Conversion issues (MARC, Zebra, Aleph, etc.)
URIs for and descriptions of institutions/libraries

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Social networking: What existing online places could use open bibliographic data?
User options: What do users want to do with open bibliographic data?
How could we get users to make open bibliographic data available? E.g. what functionality do they want that we could trade for their participation?
Using CKAN as the description and registration hub for bibliographic data (in the wider sense).

POLITICS

How to promote to funding bodies, system vendors, departments, universities, publishers, government institutions
How to solve the problem of libraries having their data in systems they do not control
Approaching dataset owners, empowering enthusiastic volunteers to take on particular dataset liberation projects
Using isitopendata, targeting FOI responsibilities, publicising responses