[okfn-discuss] LCSH site is taken down

Mon Jan 5 17:28:17 UTC 2009

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> I hadn't seen this -- really interesting. Would be nice if it were
> clearer why it had been taken down: is it IPR issues or just the fact
> that the LoC saw it as competition for their own free services?

Not sure - it would be interesting to find out!

[snip]
> The University of Huddersfield releasing a huge bunch of book usage
> data under the Open Data Commons/CCZero licence just over a week ago!
> (This was on Open Access News but I somehow missed it). We should
> definitely blog this I think.

Just blogged this:

  http://blog.okfn.org/2009/01/05/more-library-related-open-data/

[snip]
> These are two more items that should be in CKAN

Done:

  http://ckan.net/package/read/iconclass
  http://ckan.net/package/read/hud-library-usagedata

> (and people we should
> contact about the open data buttons -- and in the 2nd case putting a
> proper licence on).

Done. Will let you all know what I hear! :-)

Jonathan