[open-bibliography] Crowdsourcing bibliographic data

Tue Aug 17 16:06:06 UTC 2010

We created a definition for this a few years ago:

  http://www.opendefinition.org/ossd/

This should be the case for all OKF projects.

Jonathan

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Thomas Krichel <krichel at openlib.org> wrote:
>
>  William Waites writes
>
>>  On 10-08-17 16:00, Thomas Krichel wrote:
>>
>> > What is an "open-source service"?
>>
>> My understanding is "a service that runs only on
>> free software"
>
>  The fact that the software is free is irrelevant if it's not
>  available. Thus you need the service to be completely documented,
>  meaning its maintenance scripts are available too. It's a tall order
>  to maintain such a beast, and it can be difficult if it involves
>  issues of user privacy.
>
>  I believe that the Open Library Society's ARIW service at
>  http://ariw.org is the only service that true conforms to this, but
>  I would be interested in reading about others making similar claims.
>
>> so you can download the software
>
>  Well you would also need to get the data. For some data that is fine
>  but for personal data this is tricky.
>
>  I plan to think more about this issue in the fall.
>
>> and run your own version of the service if you
>> like. The AGPL [0] tries to codify this in legal terms.
>
>  Thank you for this pointer!
>
>> [0] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
>
>  Cheers,
>
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