Open data

http://blog.okfn.org/2010/05/20/bibliographica-an-introduction/

It’s time to talk a bit about Bibliographica , a new project of the Open Knowledge Foundation. Bibliographica is designed to make it easier for scholars and researchers to share and collect information about work in their field. It provides an open source software platform to create and share semantically rich information about publications, authors and their works.

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Bibliographica

Data Packages - CKAN

Note that this does go from actions that might be best classified as 'triage' into actual curation and processing of the data but I'm going to stick with this title for now. Datasets for the JISC Open Bibliography project ¶ MARC interchange records from Cambridge University library (CUL) ~180,000 records

datatriage – Public Domain Works

http://knowledgeforge.net/pdw/trac/wiki/datatriage

Open Biblio (graphic) Projects | Open Bibliographic Working Group and Open Bibliographic Projects

GeoNames

DCMI Home: Dublin Core® Metadata Initiative (DCMI)

wiki.dbpedia.org : About

DBpedia is a crowd-sourced community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web.

Web service: xISBN [OCLC - WorldCat Affiliate tools]: xOCLCNUM API

Web service: xISSN [OCLC - WorldCat Affiliate tools]: Home

The xISSN Web service supplies ISSNs and other information associated with serial publications represented in WorldCat.

http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/doc/api.htm

xISBN API Overview The xISBN API provides a set of methods corresponding to a single, known ISBN value.

Web service: xISBN [OCLC - WorldCat Affiliate tools]: API

Goodreads OCLC and Goodreads , the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations, have teamed up to provide greater visibility on the Web for public libraries.

Web Services | OCLC Developer Network

Since previous posts about linking to WorldCat Identities are getting out of date, here's a summary of the current API. There are several ways of linking to Identities: Directly to the pages themselves OpenURL NameFinder searches SRU searches

Outgoing: Linking to WorldCat Identities

http://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/2008/06/linking-to-worl.html

introducing-thingisbn_14

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Rights API | www.hathitrust.org

Note: This API has been deprecated and will be phased out in summer 2010. Please use the Bib API instead. HathiTrust partners (and other interested parties) need a way to get information unique to HathiTrust (handle data, rights information) into their own systems.