Yesterday, I was up in Harrogate at the UKSG (UK Serials Group) annual conference to speak in a keynote session on Open Bibiliograpy and Open Bibliographic Data.
I’ve posted the slides online and iframed below.
Outline
Over the past few years, there has an explosive growth in open data with significant uptake in government, research and elsewhere.
Bibliographic records are a key part of our shared cultural heritage. They too should therefore be open, that is made available to the public for access and re-use under an open license which permits use and reuse without restriction (http://opendefinition.org/). Doing this promises a variety of benefits.
First, it would allow libraries and other managers of bibliographic data to share records more efficiently and improve quality more rapidly through better, easier feedback. Second, through increased innovation in bibliographic services and applications generating benefits for the producers and users of bibliographic data and the wider community.
This talk will cover the what, why and how of open bibliographica data, drawing on direct recent experience such as the development of the Open Biblio Principles and the work of the Bibliographica and JISC OpenBib projects to make the 3 million records of the British Library’s British National Bibliography (BNB) into linked open data.
With a growing number of Government agencies and public institutions making data open, is it now time for the publishing and library community to do likewise?