[open-bibliography] Public domain identification at the University of Michigan

Thu Aug 19 14:38:04 UTC 2010

Thanks very much for the prompt response.  That's unfortunate about
the bibliographic records, but I guess OCLC's tentacles have a long
reach.

I'll certainly continue to follow the project with great interest.

Tom

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Karle-Zenith, Anne <annekz at umich.edu> wrote:
> Tom – thank you for your interest in our work. Here are answers to your
> questions:
>
>  - I would characterize this as a manual process. We have built automated
> querying tools into the system so a reviewer can search the Stanford
> Copyright Renewal Database without having to type in the title, etc. But it
> is up to the reviewer to then identify if the renewal records in the search
> results match the work they are examining, and if they don’t find any
> renewal records it is up to them to do additional searching via truncation,
> etc.
>  - HathiTrust is not the originator of any of the bibliographic data -  the
> rights or terms of use are determined by others.  In this case, records will
> often by constrained by the OCLC terms of use.  I’m new to this list, but I
> am told that in a separate email, Rufus reported on a conversation with John
> Wilkin about Michigan's ability to identify Michigan records that might be
> free of constraints, and that sort of dialogue would need to take place with
> each contributing institution.
>  - You can send feedback about issues with the metadata in particular record
> or volume in the HathiTrust Catalog via the “Feedback” link at the top right
> of each record
>  - Reprints that have been designated as in copyright based on date of
> republication are being evaluated as they come into our workflow, either via
> copyright review work, or if one is brought to our attention by a patron,
> usually via the HathiTrust feedback mechanism. We check to make sure the
> work is a true reprint (i.e. No new copyrighted material has been added to
> the original work) and if we can confirm that we will manually update the
> rights status). I did review the work that you cited and updated the rights
> status.
>
>
> Anne Karle-Zenith
> Copyright Review Project Librarian
> University of Michigan
> University Library
> 320 Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library North
> Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190
> (734) 764-1288
>
> On 8/18/10 4:01 PM, "open-bibliography-request at lists.okfn.org"
> <open-bibliography-request at lists.okfn.org> wrote:
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:11:52 -0400
> From: Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [open-bibliography] Public domain identification at the
>         University of Michigan
> To: "annekz at umich.edum List for Working Group on Open Bibliographic
>         Data"   <open-bibliography at lists.okfn.org>
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> That sounds like a great project!  I had a quick look and have a few
> questions right off the bat:
>
> - Is any machine assistance used to aid in the process of looking up
> copyright renewals, etc or is this entirely a manual process?
> - Is the bibliographic data which is available for retreival through
> the API in the public domain?
> - Is there an easy way to submit corrections (a la OpenLibrary) to the
> bibliographic data?
>   (As luck would have it, the very first record I pulled had a typo in
> the publisher field http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005730998)
> - Is any special handling being done for reprints in determining
> copyright status?  For example,
> http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005714794 is an 1896 book
> republished in the 1980s with a new title page, but 99.99% of the book
> is a photographic reproduction of the 1896 text (and presumably not
> subject to copyright).
>
> Thanks for doing this work to increase the pubic commons!
>
> Tom
>
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