[open-bibliography] Releasing LibraryThing data under CC-BY or equivalent?

Thu Oct 28 18:19:44 UTC 2010

Amazing! Thanks Tim! Do you have URLs for the last 3? We'd love to add
them to CKAN, e.g. at:

http://ckan.net/group/bibliographic

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Tim Spalding <tim at librarything.com> wrote:
> Most of it is currently available only non-commercially. Summary:
>
> * Common Knowledge (series, awards, etc.) — API — Non-commercial
> * ThingISBN — (ISBN/work disambiguation) — Feed and API — Non-commercial
> * Wikipedia citations — Feed — Non-commercial
> * What Work? — What LT work is a book? — API — Attribution only
> * ThingLang — What language is the ISBN — API — Unrestricted
> * Covers — URL — No restrictions, but limits on how hard you can hit us
>
> Tim
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Dear Tim,
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Tim Spalding <tim at librarything.com> wrote:
>>> And I'm interested in whether LT should release its data to OKF, and
>>> if we did, what licenses could be applied to it. For example, we
>>> offered to release our Common Knowledge data to Open Library, but they
>>> refused the CC-Attribution license we proposed.
>>
>> Just to follow this up: it would be *amazing* if LT would be willing
>> to release a dump of its data under CC-BY or equivalent (e.g. ODC
>> Attribution license for data [1])!
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> [1] http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Gray
>>
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