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

[Ross Singer]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Christopher Gutteridge <
cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

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


Going back to the original question, OAIster doesn't contain all "open"
data.  Lots of records in OAIster (as well as what could be harvested via
ROAR and OpenDOAR) are not for freely available resources.  It's also
impossible to figure out what is free/not-free from the results.

That's not to say that any of these aren't good starting points, esp. if
some degree of error is okay, but they can be very frustrating to rely on if
you're expecting the content to be open access.

-Ross.

>
>
> 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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