A testfile containing books in the Danish National Bibliography 2010 and 2011 as linked open data has been published by DBC (Danish Bibliographic Centre) on oss.dbc.dk. A SPARQL endpoint to the corresponding triple store is available at http://lod.dbc.dk/webui/. DBC will continue working with LOD, expanding the scope to other types [...]
Read full post…The Japanese translation of “National Bibliographies in the Digital Age” is now available as a PDF on the SC section of the IFLA web site. I would like to thank Yokoyama-san as well as my other colleagues at the Acquisitions and Bibliography Department of the National Diet Library, Japan (NDL) [...]
Read full post…The SC is making a call for papers for the IFLA WLIC in Helsinki on the theme: What is a national bibliography today and what are its potential uses? Proposals may include, but are not limited to the following topics: What should be in a national bibliography in the digital [...]
Read full post…The Web NDL Authorities is now fully released by the National Diet Library, Japan (NDL). The Web NDL Authorities is a service that provides NDL’s authority records as Linked Open Data and makes them accessible to the Semantic Web. *The Web NDL Authorities For details, please refer also to this paper: [...]
Read full post…The National Diet Library, Japan (NDL), adopts the MARC21 format for the JAPAN/MARC, a machine-readable form of the Japanese National Bibliography, from January 2012. At the same time, the NDL shifts character set for bibliographic records to Unicode for international use. From January 2012, it is also possible to download [...]
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