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

Tue Aug 17 15:39:11 UTC 2010

Unfortunately the status of library catalogue records in terms of licensing remains a bit of a grey area - not least because it often isn't clear where records came from, what agreements were in place when they were obtained, and how much the record has changed since it was obtained. The fields MJ identifies may well help, but unlikely to tell the whole story.

I think also there is some FUD around this as well (I don't mean people/organisation deliberately doing this, more that those responsible may well be uncertain about what they can do with the records etc.) The following JISC guide may help http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/Projects/TransferandUseofBibliographicRecords.aspx.

Owen

On 17 Aug 2010, at 14:02, MJ Ray wrote:

> Ian Ibbotson wrote:
>> AFAIK (I'm not a marc expert by a way) you're right that there's no
>> obvious way to discern the license for a record (Or indeed the license
>> for the resource pointed to by the record).
> 
> I'm no MARC expert either, but I've spent years wading in it to
> achieve migrations to Koha and so on.  I think 018$a (Copyright
> article-fee code) would at least allow to spot fee-required
> resources pointed to by records.
> 
> I guess we might be able to combine the 008/39 and 040 (Cataloging
> Source) values with external knowledge of the catalogue licensing
> policies of various agencies to figure things out, but it's imperfect.
> 
>> Of course the tech predates that particular question. [...]
> 
> Really?  I thought copyright had been obnoxious for quite a while.
> 
>> [...] Come to think of it, a useful feature of
>> a Z3950->OAI tool might be to add such license statements.
> 
> Although I saw it first, I'm less familiar with OAI.  What would I
> expect to see for open bibliographic data in OAI?  Does it happen
> in the wild?
> 
> Thanks,
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