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

Mon Aug 16 16:49:16 UTC 2010

I may be wrong but I think John is looking for something rather
different: the equivalent of what gets called a 'knowledge base' in
proprietary applications like SFX, which would provide the ability to do
bibliographic searches across open access and public domain databases.
It's something I had been wondering about trying to create too, though
at the moment it's just a rather vague idea.. As John implies, it would
be a big job - not just to create but to keep up-to-date.

Graham

On 08/16/10 15:33, 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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