[open-bibliography] comprehensive bibliographic database of "open" resources?

Mon Aug 16 15:33:03 UTC 2010

If I'm understanding you correctly, this is *exactly* what CKAN is for:

  http://ckan.net/
  http://ckan.net/group/bibliographic

CKAN is an open source registry of open data/open content 'packages'
(as in software packages). Medium to long term idea is something like
apt-get for open data, with support for automating lots of stuff.

Focus is on material that is open as in opendefinition.org (of which
PD material and *some* CC licensed content is a subset).

Does that help? Would love to have any feedback on how we can improve
CKAN for bibliographic material.

All the best,

Jonathan

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:52 PM, John Wilkin <jpwilkin at umich.edu> wrote:
> All,
> Of course I can think of a bucket-load of reasons why this would be impossibly hard to assemble and maintain, but I'm still curious:  has any organization tried to create a database of essentially "open" bibliographic resources?  In this case, I'm interested in something broad enough to include CC, PD, etc.--i.e., resources that can be used (at least in scholarship and teaching) without fees paid to the maintainer of the resource?
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