French academic libraries: ready (soon) for Open data & interoperability.
ABES (Agence bibliographique de l’enseignement supérieur) —the state agency for academic libraries in France— has published last month, a long document calling for “a ‘semantic web’ approach in the interoperability of the science & research data”. It describes a data model, then several case studies. In the introduction, ABES explains the need to have “an open database and an open search engine”.