[open-bibliography] Another German library publishes its data under CC-0
Jonathan Gray
jonathan.gray at okfn.org
Tue Oct 5 22:41:59 UTC 2010
This is fantastic news! Blogged this (and the new Cambridge UL release) here:
http://blog.okfn.org/2010/10/05/new-open-bibliographic-data-from-konstanz-and-cambridge/
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Adrian Pohl <pohl at hbz-nrw.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Mathias Schindler today tweeted [1] that the University Library Konstanz eventually published its data under CC-0. This is the first library outside the hbz library network to publish its data under an open license! At first they went with CC-BY-NC-SA - as Mathias already mentioned on this list [2] - but were prompted by several people - amongst others on Germany's biggest mailing list for librarians Inetbib - to use Open Knowledge Definition compatible license.
>
> Obviously they now have changed the licensing terms, see http://wiki.bsz-bw.de/doku.php?id=v-team:daten:openaccess:knub
>
> What might interest you even more: It's MARC data!
>
> Cheers
> Adrian
>
>
> [1] http://twitter.com/presroi/status/26363563970
> [2] http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-bibliography/2010-September/000412.html
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