[open-bibliography] OCLC ODbL?

Fri Jun 3 12:02:08 UTC 2011

These may be part of the same story, but it isn't clear to me - according to Weinberger, Roy Tennant made a specific statement about OCLC releasing " the bibliographic info about the top million most popular books" in linked data format. This seems like a different initiative to the one previously discussed which was about OCLC enabling member libraries to release data.

Owen

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On 3 Jun 2011, at 12:54, MJ Ray wrote:

> "Jo Walsh" <metazool at gmail.com> asked:
>> Hello - sorry if i've missed this in the digest, but i just saw on
>> "Twitter" that OCLC is releasing 1M bibliographic records as Linked
>> Data using the ODbL license.
>> 
>> http://twitter.com/#!/psychemedia/status/76580909683445760
>> 
>> What's the story?
> 
> The thread starts
> http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-bibliography/2011-May/000983.html
> and basically it's not as good as it seems.  ODbL but still restrictive
> usage policy, AIUI.
> 
> Hope that helps
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