Announcing Stacks Unbound

Stacks Unbound is a making day with library data, from catalogues to metadata.

Libraries are important resources for learning and culture. By metaphorically unbinding the stacks and coming together, we can explore what is possible. From linking WWI publications to compiling data on species to generating a timeline of pirate and cat publications, we hope to emulate and build on the success of previous events at RLUK and the British Library.

We aim to bring developers, librarians and researchers together to make and experiment with the resources that are available and new ones. You do not have to be a developer to join the event. We need people with ideas or problems to solve, stories and narratives to tell.

Here some possible themes to spark some ideas:

•   Finding Open Access articles and journals.
•   Linking data sets together
•   Visualising the data

Here are some data sources to spark ideas. 

• http://www.librarieshacked.org/otherdata
• http://www.librarieshacked.org/apis
• http://core.kmi.open.ac.uk/intro/data_dumps
• http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/access/data/opendata/details

If you have data that we can use but cannot make it to the event, you can register the data set with us via the registration form. We hope to have other data sets and will post about these when they become available.

Although this event is in Oxford at the Oxford e-Research Centre , we hope that other libraries will be interested in either joining us in person or virtually, or holding similar events as well.

You can join even if you cannot make it to Oxford on Twitter. The hashtag is #stacksunbound

When Saturday, 22 November 9 – 5 pm

Where Oxford e-Research Centre

Registration form

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HexkRWkaGmkhn_VitziDwRLb9KctMpwcx4pAixJ7TEM/viewform