[open-bibliography] Cambridge Open METAadata

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Edmund Chamberlain <emc59 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> I'm project manager on the COMET project and work at the UL in Cambridge.
> I've had some initial contact with Rufus but this looks like a good time to
> stop lurking here and say hello!
>
> Greetings Ed,
It was really great to see this announcement. I hope that where Cambridge
leads the world will follow. I know that after the release of the principles
there was a slight feeling of anticlimax - a natural lag time. This is a
really rapid practical response.


> Content and licensing for the project output is still being finalised, but
> where possible, we intend to follow suit on JISCOpenbib and use PDDL. A key
> part of the project will be exploring the options available for a library
> when this is not yet feasible and use this to raise awareness of the issues
> related to data ownership.
>
>
We realise this is complex. This is not a binary logic - yesYouCan,
noYouCant, but also includes murk and mumble. Differential management of
content (Open, notSure, Closed) is hard. I probably can't help in detail but
you have my moral support.

We are also looking at the ordf/open-biblio suite, so my colleagues will be
> posting on the dev-list as well.
>
> P

-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-bibliography/attachments/20110302/da06c06d/attachment-0001.html>