FYI: The German National Bibliography as Linked Open Data

* Hauser, Julia wrote:
>We are happy to announce that our Linked Data Service has expanded and
>now includes bibliographic data.
>
>In the year 2010 the German National Library (DNB) started to publish
>its authority data as linked data. Our Linked Data Service [1] has
>expanded and now includes bibliographic data. As part of this process
>the license for linked data will also be changed to "Creative Commons
>Zero" [2].
>
>As a first step, the bibliographic data of the DNB's main collection
>(apart from the printed music and the collection  of the Deutsches
>Exilarchiv) and the serials (magazines, newspapers and series of the
>German Union Catalogue of serials (ZDB)) have been converted. Henceforth
>the RDF/XML-representation of the records are available at the DNB
>portal [3]. This is an experimental service that will be continually
>expanded and improved. Closer information about modeling and further
>procedures can be found in the updated German documentation [4] and in
>the soon coming updated English documentation [5].
>
>We welcome comments and questions on the wiki documentation site [1].
>
>Best regards,
>Julia Hauser
>
>[1] https://wiki.dnb.de/display/LDS/
>[2] http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
>[3] http://portal.dnb.de/
>[4] http://files.d-nb.de/pdf/linked_data.pdf
>[5] http://files.d-nb.de/pdf/linked_data_e.pdf
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