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

Mon Aug 16 17:22:23 UTC 2010

I can second OAISter as a tool to let people search over the known open
access repositories, but getting a copy of the data it holds is more
murky.

Chris, I can't remember if I've already asked this before, but is the
ROAR dataset available for download somewhere?

Ben

On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 17:16 +0100, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
> 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?
> >
> > 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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