{"id":46,"date":"2010-09-22T10:22:30","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T09:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/bibliography\/?p=46"},"modified":"2021-03-09T06:06:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T05:06:19","slug":"the-british-library-announces-new-free-data-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/bibliography\/2010\/09\/22\/the-british-library-announces-new-free-data-options\/","title":{"rendered":"The British Library announces new free data options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British Library has <a title=\"BL Press release\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/news\/2010\/pressrelease20100823a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that it is going to offer <a title=\"new ways\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/bibliographic\/datafree.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two new ways<\/a> for libraries and researchers to access its bibliographic data including the British National Bibliography. These are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A free Z39.50 service for libraries to selectively download records in MARC21<\/li>\n<li>Bulk data sets in XML (RDF\/DC) for researchers and organisations wishing to utilise the data (e.g. data mining)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The British Library is also collaborating with researchers at the University of Cambridge as part of the <a title=\"Open Bibliography\" href=\"http:\/\/openbiblio.net\/2010\/09\/10\/open-bibliographic-data-flyer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Open Bibliography&#8217;<\/a> project investigating new\u00a0models\u00a0for libraries to unlock the potential of\u00a0their\u00a0records (e.g. as open linked data).<\/p>\n<p>Anyone interested in the new services should contact: <a href=\"mailto:metadata@bl.uk\">metadata@bl.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Library has announced that it is going to offer two new ways for libraries and researchers to access its bibliographic data including the British National Bibliography. These are: A free Z39.50 service for libraries to selectively download records in MARC21 Bulk data sets in XML (RDF\/DC) for researchers and organisations wishing to utilise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,171,179],"tags":[181,182,3794],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-models","category-new-developments-announcements","category-technology-issues","tag-bnb","tag-british-national-bibliography","tag-lod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/bibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/bibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/bibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/bibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/bibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/bibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/bibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/bibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/bibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/bibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}