[open-bibliography] New sample of BL data available

Wed Sep 8 11:09:47 UTC 2010

Ray,

You're correct, the datasets are for non-commercial users for research
purposes only.

If you are uncertain about whether you qualify for these, please contact
metadata at bl.uk to discuss your requirements.

What I am particularly interested in is feedback on the metadata, the
RDF/DC XML, etc.

Thanks

Corine

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Corine Deliot
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The British Library
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e-mail: corine.deliot at bl.uk
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:open-bibliography-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of MJ Ray
Sent: 2010-09-08 10:56
To: List for Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data
Subject: Re: [open-bibliography] New sample of BL data available

"Deliot, Corine" wrote:
> A couple of weeks ago, the BL announced that it would make some of its
> datasets available free of charge. The first sample file provided a
> basic RDF/DC representation of our BNB data. We've now produced a more
> granular representation. A sample is available at:
> http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/datasamples.html
> 
> This is work in progress and feedback on the data structure is very
> welcome (on this list or direct to me, whatever is best). 

Are the free of charge datasets usable by the co-op?

I thought I read they were for non-commercial users only and these
samples only seem to say they're "for research purposes" so I'm not
sure if they are safe for co-operative workers to touch.

Why didn't BL just use CC0 like some others recently?  It would avoid
this mess.

Confused,
-- 
MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit
co-op.
Webmaster, Debian Developer, Past Koha RM, statistician, former
lecturer.
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