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The European Library is making its aggregation of c.200m bibliographic records, harvested from European libraries, available as open CC0 data

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Open Data at The European Library

Alastair DunningProgramme [email protected]@kb.nl

TEL Annual MeetingAmsterdamSeptember 2013

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“ The coolest thing to do with your data will be thought of by someone else ”

Rufus Pollock, Jo Walsh(University of Cambridge, University of Edinburgh)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Free_software

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The European Library

Central index of 119m bibliographic records

Remote access to a further c.80m

Currently using this data limited to catalogue search

and API

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But what if TEL offered a dataset there was open for any type of re-use, even if

that use was

•commercial•not requiring attribution

•open to being remixed

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=> Creating a Creative Commons 0 datasetfrom metadata aggregated by TEL

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Inspirations

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What can be achieved ?

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Delivering datasets of commercial search

providers, helping drive traffic back to libraries

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Allows research projects to create subsets of data

specific to their topic(e.g. Cendari project on

WW1 and medieval resources)

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Allow other developers to enrich the data, helping with

semantic interpretation, entity recognition (people,

places), clustering of similar or identical records

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Visualising bibliographic records according to place

and time of publication

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Creating Linked Open Data that allows creates

relationships between library metadata and other

datasets … which can enrich others’ datasets in turn

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Initial request for responses went out to member libraries in Summer

2013.

TEL now working with libraries on issues

Aim to have dataset released by end of year

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Next Up:

Nuno Freire- Technical issues in creating

Linked Open Data

Julia Fallon – Legal context