Joshua Seufert from the Bodleian KB Chen China Centre Library presented the catalogue data which he had brought along with him. One of the outcomes was the conversation between librarians and technologists. Although we see the same data, we perhaps have very different questions about it: such as the desire and / or the initial idea versus the reality of creating the service in terms of required resources to realise it.
Some work was done on integrating the catalogue with the Chinese Biographical Database Project using AJAX. Some work needs to continue on it but provides an initial piece of work to provide biographical data within the catalogue search.
Book, author and title authority files in XML were created from the catalogue using linked data principles. Given the old database was on a DOS system and needed a little updating, this shows a method of doing this without losing any authority.
The final hack was a project on the Oxford University Research Archive to visualise some of the data in the feeds.
The Open Knowledge Labs Timemapper project was demonstrated as well as another tool for displaying data to users. There were numerous conversations around the OCLC data and potential ways of enriching existing sets.
Having the Bodleian Chinese data provided the best project of the day and it was an unexpected pleasure. The next event is at Cambridge University Library and looks likely to be held over two days. I think there might one out West as well but more details as and when they arrive.
Thanks to the Oxford e-Research Centre for hosting us, Jenny Molloy from the Open Knowledge Open Science group, the Bodleian Libraries and the Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services for their help and time.
A storify of some of the tweets is here: https://storify.com/iaine/stacks-unbound
Stacks Unbound 