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The Names Project

Submitted by amanda on Tue, 2011-11-01 10:11

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Website:

http://names.mimas.ac.uk/about.html

Maintained by:

Mimas and the British Library

Name types:

Scholar names

Corporate authors

Number of entries:

47000

Data schema or elements:

Fields of interest, institutional affiliation, publications, collaborators

Is the data linked?:

Yes

Focused on UK researchers. "Currently this service and site are used for testing and validation of the in-development software prototype for the Names project. This service and site are not intended for use in live external applications or services except for experimentation as the availability, data and API are currently all subject to change." Not sure if whole data set is available.

Library of Congress Name Authority Files

Submitted by amanda on Mon, 2011-10-31 17:09

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RDF
XML

Website:

http://authorities.loc.gov/

Maintained by:

Library of Congress

Name types:

Scholar names

Other names

Corporate authors

Data schema or elements:

MADS

Is the data linked?:

Yes

Licensing terms:

Public domain

Available as bulk download as MADS/RDF. "We'll make a SKOS/RDF download available in the near future. We are offering two serializations: n-triples and RDF/XML."

http://id.loc.gov/download/

Based on book publications rather than journal publications.

Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2011-09-07 15:46

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Website:

http://doc.esd.org.uk/IPSV/2.00.html

Maintained by:

PSV Board

Structure:

Hierarchical

Number of entries:

7943

Last updated:

2006

NEWT

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2011-09-02 10:10

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Website:

http://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/

Maintained by:

Universal Protein Resource (UniProt)

Number of entries:

947541

Last updated:

Current

A taxonomy of biological organisms created and maintained to support the Universal Protein Resource (UniProt), a collection of databases providing a comprehensive protein sequencing resource. Provides official species names, common names and synonyms - either alternate common names or occasionally outdated Latin names. For viruses, a list of hosts is included if the virus has protein sequences listed in the UniProt databases.

Zotero

Submitted by amanda on Sat, 2011-04-09 14:23

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Website:

http://www.zotero.org/

Maintained by:

Center for History and New Media at George Mason University

Country:

USA

Type of metadata source:

Reference management database

Type of journals:

open access

commercial

OAI-PMH compliant?:

No

Licensing terms:

Unknown - no visible terms of use, but open source project.

Database of records is not publicly accessible or searchable, but API info suggests it might be accessible to developers through the API http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/start.

Cogprints

Submitted by amanda on Fri, 2011-04-08 11:11

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Website:

http://cogprints.org/

Maintained by:

Stevan Harnad

Country:

UK

Type of metadata source:

Eprint archive

Number of articles:

2000

OAI-PMH compliant?:

Yes

Contact information:

Dr. Bernd Wegner editor@zentralblatt-math.org

Also other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition.

PubMed

Submitted by amanda on Wed, 2011-04-06 11:10

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Website:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

Maintained by:

U.S. National Library of Medicine, U.S. National Institutes of Health

Country:

USA

Type of metadata source:

Citation database

Type of journals:

open access

commercial

Number of journals:

5400

OAI-PMH compliant?:

Yes

Licensing terms:

Data is public domain but they ask for acknowledgement: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/disclaimer.html

Contact information:

info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

An open access subset of the records are harvestable using OAI-PMH interface http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/guide/howto/dwn-records/. Also the CISTI/CIHI collection http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/oai.cgi?verb=Identify

Hubmed: Alternative interface for accessing PubMed data.

Also accessible via OKF http://openbiblio.net/2011/05/23/medline-dataset/

STW Thesaurus for Economics

Submitted by amanda on Fri, 2011-03-11 20:37

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Website:

http://zbw.eu/stw/versions/latest/about

Maintained by:

German National Library of Economics (ZBW) / Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Structure:

Hierarchical

Number of entries:

6000

Last updated:

Current

Open linked data. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License.

GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus

Submitted by amanda on Thu, 2011-03-10 18:47

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Website:

http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet

Maintained by:

European Environment Agency (EEA) and its Network (Eionet)

Number of entries:

5298

Last updated:

2004