For those of you interested in the developer competition being run by the JISC MOSAIC Project, I've put together a quick & dirty API for the available data sets. If it's easier for you, you can use this API to develop your competition entry rather than working with the entire downloaded data set. edit (31/Jul/2009): [...]
Posts Tagged ‘opendata’
Web service for the free book usage data
I've been meaning to get around to adding a web service front end on to the book usage data that we released in December for ages. So, better late than never, here it is! It's not the fastest bit of code I've ever written, but (if there's enough interest) I could speed it up. The [...]
Keyword search data
We've been logging all keyword searches on our OPAC for nearly 3 years and now have details for over 3 million searches. Just in case the data is of any use to anyone, I've uploaded an aggregated XML version to our web server: http://library.hud.ac.uk/data/keyworddata/ As with the usage data, we're putting it out there with [...]
Yay for Talis!
Congratulations to both Talis and LibLime! Talis, the UK market leader in providing academic and public library solutions, and LibLime, the leader in open solutions for libraries, are pleased to announce a partnership to make available over five million bibliographic records to the library community on the ‡biblios.net platform.– Talis and LibLime Open Data on [...]
Talis Podcast
I can't remember if I was using my "posh telephone voice", but Richard Wallis has just posted a podcast that was recorded yesterday afternoon with Patrick Murray-John. It's definitely worth fast-forwarding past my inane waffley bits to listen to Patrick's comments, as he makes some great points. Using usage data for marketing purposes wasn't something [...]
Free book usage data from the University of Huddersfield
I'm very proud to announce that Library Services at the University of Huddersfield has just done something that would have perhaps been unthinkable a few years ago: we've just released a major portion of our book circulation and recommendation data under an Open Data Commons/CC0 licence. In total, there's data for over 80,000 titles derived [...]
Coming soon, to a blog near here…
Okay — I'm the first to admit I don't blog enough… I still haven't even blogged about how great Mashed Library 2008 was (luckily other attendees have already blogged about it!) Anyway, unless I get run over by a bus, later on this week I'm going to post something fairly big — well, it's about [...]
Show Us a Better Way
Thanks to Iman Moradi for highlighting this site: Show Us a Better Way Tell us what you'd build with public information and we could help fund your idea! Ever been frustrated that you can't find out something that ought to be easy to find? Ever been baffled by league tables or 'performance indicators'? Do you [...]