Integrating and Exploiting Public Metadata Sources in a Bibliographic Information System

Bibliographic information systems need to rely on metadata provided by various sources in various forms and with various quality. The talk gives some insights how the dblp bibliography as an example for such a system is maintained and improved. It shows how metadata can be automatically harvested from publisher websites and how the harvesting process can be steered. It also discusses some open sources of bibliographic metadata and how they can be used to enrich existing bibliographic data, but also how varying their quality is.