Open Metadata and Libraries
Jeffrey Edmunds writes about how the current metadata ecosystem is skewed against the free and open sharing of metadata, and suggests some possible ways to improve this.Read More →
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Jeffrey Edmunds writes about how the current metadata ecosystem is skewed against the free and open sharing of metadata, and suggests some possible ways to improve this.Read More →
By Lucy Barnes and Silke Davison (OABN coordinators) Over the summer we launched our (not a) survey to find out more about the OABN community: a huge thank you to everyone who shared and responded to it! Our first post concentrated on what we learned, and this post sets outRead More →
By Lucy Barnes and Silke Davison (OABN coordinators) Over the summer we launched our (not a) survey to find out more about the OABN community: a huge thank you to everyone who shared and responded to it! We promised the survey would be ‘to the point, short, and productive.’ WeRead More →
By Agata Morka This blog post was to be finished last week, but I am writing it on Monday as I was running behind with everything. And this delay has resulted in a peculiar circumstance, as an end and a beginning overlapped in one day. Today for me, is aRead More →
The OA Book Usage Data Trust (OAEBUDT) effort is working towards addressing the challenge of aggregating and curating OA book usage (OAEBU) data by enabling community-governed sharing of quality, interoperable OAEBU data. Currently, they are developing the draft OA Book Usage Data Exchange and Stewardship Rulebook to specify the principlesRead More →