[open-bibliography] Metadata aggregators, discovery tools and libraries

Sat Jan 22 22:50:09 UTC 2011

https://pims.jisc.ac.uk/projects/view/1390 <-- let me know if you need further introductions. /dff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: open-bibliography-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:open-
> bibliography-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Jim Pitman
> Sent: 22 January 2011 22:26
> To: open-bibliography at lists.okfn.org
> Subject: Re: [open-bibliography] Metadata aggregators, discovery tools
> and libraries
> 
> Adrian, all very interesting, and kudos to Jonathan for airing out this
> issue in the blogosphere. Following are some comments.
> 
> 
> > "Many many publishers these days provide RSS feeds with metadata of
> > their recent publications. By consuming these feeds, and storing what
> > you get over time, JournalTOCs is building a giant database of
> article
> > metadata — that only goes back as far as when they started collecting
> > it. My impression is that JournalTOCs is looking for a way to
> monetize
> > this at a profit however, rather than provide it in a cooperative
> > cost-sharing basis."[4]
> > Similar approaches have already been discussed on this list. Have you
> > already heard about this service? Obviously nobody has objected yet
> > against what it does. Maybe we could approach them about opening up
> > the data... Interestingly, their API is licensed CC-BY.[5]
> 
> Well, the JOurnalTOCs API is CC-BY so there seems to be no legal
> impediment to massively caching
> and re-exposing their data, and e.g. feeding it to Krichel's
> authorclaim.  I can provide funding for API plumbing to feed data
> in subjects I care about from JournalTOCs to a place where I am more
> confident it cant be closed off and I and other biblio researchers
> have bulk access by rsync or similar for industrial processing. Anyone
> out there available to do this
> sort of work? Or suggestions of good contractors for this purpose?
> I could do some of this with Berkeley based resources, but I would much
> rather see a distributed effort of this kind.
> I would love to see OKFN provide the server and database support for
> this.
> I have no problem with using CC-BY for this purpose. You just stick in
> each record a field with
> the CC-BY acknowledgement, and then these records can be freely
> exchanged and mixed with others.
> Especially if subsequent aggregation is done with CC0, it seems there
> is no attribution stacking.
> Anyone else can aggregrate subsets with CC0 too, and the individual
> records only need to carry the original
> CC-BY from JOurnalTOCs.
> 
> In any case I think JournalTOCs is providing a great service, and OKFN
> should do what it can to engage them
> and to encourage and support their efforts.  Anyone on this list have a
> connection to JournalTOCs?
> 
> --Jim
> 
> > [1] http://pegasuslibrarian.com/2011/01/heads-they-win-tales-we-lose-
> discovery-tools-will-never-deliver-on-their-promise.html
> > [2] http://friendfeed.com/lris/f9c18716/heads-they-win-tales-we-lose-
> discovery-tools
> > [3] http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/
> > [4] http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/more-on-aggregating-
> article-metadata/
> > [5] http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/index.php?action=about
> 
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