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"a project by the Open Library Society, supported by the Open Bibliographic Data Working Group of the Open Knowledge Foundation. We improve the access to and the use of freely available scholarly metadata. Most of the records discussed here are already used in the Society's AuthorClaim service. We are making the records available here for others to use them. The idea is to build over time a large freely available dataset for academic performance evaluation and data mining. "

"Purpose:\n# Act as a central point of reference and support for people interested in open bibliographic data\n# Identify relevant projects and practices. Promote best practices as well as legal and technical standards for making data open (such as the Open Knowledge Definition).\n# Act as a hub for the development and maintenance of low cost, community driven projects related to open bibliographic data."

"Using the success of the iPhone project and the increasing number of good open data examples (e.g. http://data.gov.uk) we were able to kick-off our own open data project to create opendata.warwickshire.gov.uk. The business case and main benefits driving the project are: * Transparency for the public * Enhancing public communications * Improving service delivery and enabling citizens to self-serve * Contributing towards new ways of running public services * Improving external contribution to WCC * Enabling mash-ups of disparate sources of information to create new ways of looking at information * Enabling 3rd sector organisations or individuals to develop applications aggregating data across organisational boundaries * Reducing workload in areas like Freedom of Information (FOI), the Observatory and Public Relations * Reinforcing our efforts to resolve data and information issues"

Open Knowledge Foundationin Bibliographica-projekti (http://bibliographica.org/): palvelu joka sisältää bibliografista metadataa avoimesti. Mukana ollut myös Edinburghin yliopiston IDEALab.

"The business model we're imposing on top of this two-fold: * Some features of the system, such as personal dashboards, scheduled email reports and API access is only available to paying subscribers. * Access to premium data, such as market research, financial market data and analyst forecasts is sold for a fee. As the company name implies, this is a market for data, even though a lot of the "merchandise" is free of charge."

"Good bibliographic data are in a state of fairly constant, even if minor, flux. There are periodic refinements to names and terms (through authority work), corrections to or amplifications of discrete elements (e.g., dates, titles, authors), and constant augmentation of the records through connection with ancillary data (e.g., statements about the copyright status of the specific manifestation of the work).\n\nIn fact, bibliographic data are the classic example of data that need to live in the linked data space, where not only constant fixes but constant annotation and augmentation can take place."

"Digital material can be easily reproduced at no cost. But this potential is often not realised, because the vast majority of archaeological information is not shared. Researchers and research groups usually restrict access to their data to a small group of people. In other words, data sharing is not so widespread among archaeologists as one might wish, and dissemination of research is still mostly based on traditional pre-digital means like journal articles, books and the like."