[open-bibliography] Mendeley and open data...

Thomas Krichel krichel at openlib.org
Mon Aug 30 22:17:13 UTC 2010


  Peter Murray-Rust writes

> Available isn't good enough. That's the point of the Open
> Defintion. If it's just "available" and you re-use it without
> permission they can send the lawyers. They can close the site, etc.

  It's a waste of time and effort worrying about this. 

> On the contrary. Open metadata is essential for libraries.
 
  Why?


  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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