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

Mon Aug 16 16:16:21 UTC 2010

oaister will give you quite a few. As will our ROAR, 
http://roar.eprints.org/

On 16/08/10 16:40, John Wilkin wrote:
> 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?
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> On Aug 16, 2010, at 11:33 AM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
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>> If I'm understanding you correctly, this is *exactly* what CKAN is for:
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>>   http://ckan.net/
>>   http://ckan.net/group/bibliographic
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>> 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.
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>> Focus is on material that is open as in opendefinition.org (of which
>> PD material and *some* CC licensed content is a subset).
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>> Does that help? Would love to have any feedback on how we can improve
>> CKAN for bibliographic material.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Jonathan
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>> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:52 PM, John Wilkin<jpwilkin at umich.edu>  wrote:
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>>> 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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