[open-bibliography] WorldCat API and Licensing

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> I can't help with the API, but I'll offer an opinion on the licensing.
>  (Of course, you should should ask your lawyer if you want real
> advice.)
>
>
I'd agree with what Tom says. There may or may not be uses for
NC-bibliography but it cannot be included in Open Bibliography as we are
using it. The increasing availability ofg NC may help change the culture but
at the bottom we have to have complete Openness.

We assert that individual bibliographic components are Open so that we can
reasonably show that we have not taken them from someone else's collection.
Since most of these are normalizable data then once we have got them, they
act as a permanent record.

If we take them from NC collections then they contaminate the rest of our
Open collection.

I am optimistic that as we get momentum then there are enough OKD-compliant
data that we can build the mass of Open Bibliography quite quickly.


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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
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