British National Bibliography
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"Following up on the earlier announcement [1] that the British Library
[2] has made the British National Bibliography [3] available under a
public domain dedication, the JISC Open Bibliography [4] project has
worked to make this data more useable.
The data has been loaded into a Virtuoso store that is queriable
through the SPARQL Endpoint [5] and the URIs that we have assigned
each record use the ORDF [6] software to make them dereferencable,
supporting perform content auto-negotiation as well as embedding RDFa
in the HTML representation.
The data contains some 3 million individual records and some 173
million triples. Indexing the data was a very CPU intensive process
taking approximately three days. Transforming and loading the source
data took about five hours...."