[open-bibliography] Fwd: [okfn-discuss] University of Ghent LibraryCatalogues: Open or Not?

Mon Mar 1 10:52:31 UTC 2010

Thanks Lukas, that's incredibly useful to know and I'll try getting in
touch with them direct.

Regards,

Rufus

On 26 February 2010 22:58, Koster, Lukas <L.Koster at uva.nl> wrote:
> I know who did this: Patrick Hochstenbach of Ghent University Library (in
> CC). He is definitely interested in this initiative.
>
> Lukas Koster
> Head of Library Systems Department
> Library of the University of Amsterdam
>
>
> ________________________________
> Van: open-bibliography-bounces at lists.okfn.org namens Jonathan Gray
> Verzonden: vr 26-2-2010 1:06
> Aan: List for Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data
> Onderwerp: [open-bibliography] Fwd: [okfn-discuss] University of Ghent
> LibraryCatalogues: Open or Not?
>
> Thought this might be relevant here too!
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Rufus Pollock
> Date: Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:26 AM
> Subject: [okfn-discuss] University of Ghent Library Catalogues: Open or Not?
> To: okfn-discuss <okfn-discuss at lists.okfn.org>
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>
> The other day someone registered two very interesting packages on CKAN:
>
> <http://ckan.net/package/ugent_biblio> - tab delimited file of all
> Ghent University publications
> <http://ckan.net/package/ugent_catalog> - dump of complete Ghent
> University library catalog
>
> The second of these is particularly interesting as open bibliographic
> metadata is hard to come by!
>
> On the CKAN pages the packages have been listed as public domain.
> However, following the provided project url:
> <http://lib.ugent.be/info/en/exports.shtml> one finds a nice "Open
> Knowledge" button but also, unfortunately, the statement that: "This
> work is licensed under a Creative Commons
> Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Belgium License."
>
> Non-commercial licenses are obviously not http://opendefinition.org/
> compliant (and a CC license isn't a good idea for data either!). This
> seems like a good opportunity to do an http://isitopendata.org/
> request but before starting on this I wanted to ask:
>
>  * Does anyone out there had any ideas what was going on here?
>  * Is there anyone with good Belgium (or Library) connections who
> could make the request (they usually work better from someone in the
> "scene")
>
> Regards,
>
> Rufus
>
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