Archive for November, 2010

Publishing ORO as Linked Data

The data
One of the first data sets to be made available on http://data.open.ac.uk is the contents of ORO (Open Research Online), the Open University’s repository of research publications and other research outputs. The software behind ORO is EPrints, open source software developed at the School of Electronics and Computer Science and is used widely for similar repositories across UK [...]

Introducing Lucero

Having made great progress with Lucero in October, with the launch of http://data.open.ac.uk, and the publication of our first data sets as Linked Data, we now have something to start talking about and showing to people. We’ve used Twitter extensively for our first wave of dissemination, including the first announcement of data available at http://data.open.ac.uk [...]