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

Mon Aug 16 15:40:50 UTC 2010

No, but it's my fault:  too terse.  CKAN is a registry of data (including metadata) sources, but I'm wondering about the metadata themselves.  That is, is there a searchable bibliographic database of these materials such that a faculty member could locate, say, free-free articles on adhesion in polymer blends?  

On Aug 16, 2010, at 11:33 AM, Jonathan Gray wrote:

> 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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