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

2. Open Data at The
European Library
Alastair Dunning
Programme Manager
@alastairdunning
alastair.dunning@kb.nl
TEL Annual Meeting
Amsterdam
September 2013

3. “ 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. => Creating a Creative
Commons 0 dataset
from metadata
aggregated by TEL

7. Inspirations

11. What can be
achieved ?

12. Delivering datasets of
commercial search
providers, helping drive
traffic back to libraries

13. Allows research projects
to create subsets of data
specific to their topic
(e.g. Cendari project on
WW1 and medieval
resources)

14. Allow other developers to
enrich the data, helping
with semantic
interpretation, entity
recognition (people,
places), clustering of
similar or identical
records

15. Visualising bibliographic
records according to
place and time of
publication

16. Creating Linked Open
Data that allows creates
relationships between
library metadata and other
datasets … which can
enrich others’ datasets in
turn

17. 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

18. Next Up:
Nuno Freire- Technical
issues in creating
Linked Open Data
Julia Fallon – Legal context