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| The Mannheim University Library aims for publishing as much bibliographic data as possible under a as free as possible license. | The Mannheim University Library aims for publishing as much bibliographic data as possible under a as free as possible license. | ||
| - | But as many different institutions were and are involved in the creation | + | The catalog data of the Mannheim University Library can be used as open data under the [[http:// |
| - | So the provided | + | The same is true for the catalog |
| - | We encourage and permit experiments with our Linked Data Service, i.e. the inclusion of the data in own applications and the linking with own data. | ||
| - | However, we ask for a **[[http://data.bib.uni-mannheim.de/kontakt_en.html|consultation]]**, if you include the data in publicly | + | We also loaded the data of the [[http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/ |
| - | **Update:** Recently, we loaded also the data of the [[http:// | + | All other data from SWB and HeBIS is provided |
| - | How to provide such licensing information together with the data is by the way very interesting and subject of the [[http:// | + | You see, the use of data can be quite complicated, |
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| + | Best compatibility is reached, if the data is provided without any restrictions, | ||
| == Why are the data not freely available as Linked Open Data? == | == Why are the data not freely available as Linked Open Data? == | ||
| Linked Data and Open Data are two different aspects, hardly related in the first place. Linked Data describes the technical aspect of providing data in RDF and thus making them embeddable in linked data applications. Open Data means that data - in arbitrary formats - is made available under a free license and usable for others. Often, these two aspects are mixed and referred to as Linked Open Data. | Linked Data and Open Data are two different aspects, hardly related in the first place. Linked Data describes the technical aspect of providing data in RDF and thus making them embeddable in linked data applications. Open Data means that data - in arbitrary formats - is made available under a free license and usable for others. Often, these two aspects are mixed and referred to as Linked Open Data. | ||
| - | As said in the above response about the license, we aim for free data. With this service, we are concerned about the technical aspects of linked data and we want to try different things with it and experiment with this technology. | + | As said in the above response about the license, we aim for free data. As university library, however, we can only decide for our own data, which consequently is provided as open data. |
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| + | With this service, we are concerned about the technical aspects of linked data and we want to try different things with it and experiment with this technology. | ||
| However, the presentation of the data is could definitely be improved further, so we assume that there is no serious demand for a use in a production system at this point of time. | However, the presentation of the data is could definitely be improved further, so we assume that there is no serious demand for a use in a production system at this point of time. | ||
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| + | == Where can I download the data? == | ||
| + | Our data is available here (MARC21): https:// | ||
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| + | Data of HBZ libraries can be found here: https:// | ||
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