[open-bibliography] Principles for Open Bibliographic Data

[Isabel Holroyd]

biab online is open, though we still need to draft and upload our license statement to that effect (we are very pressed for time at present, but I can try and get this through asap if you think it would help?)

http://www.biab.ac.uk


Isabel




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From: open-bibliography-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:open-bibliography-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Peter Murray-Rust
Sent: 07 March 2011 14:17
To: beyond-the-pdf at googlegroups.com
Cc: List for Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data; Anita de Waard
Subject: Re: [open-bibliography] Principles for Open Bibliographic Data

[copied to OKF's Open Bibliographic list, where the work was inspired and took place] :-) What am I to say?

Taking the Panton Principles for Data (http://pantonprinciples.org/) as a lead, Adrian Pohl got a few of us together and over the months the Principles for Open Bibliographic Data emerged. It's not been trivial to define Open Bibliography but I think we are all agreed that the core is Open.

Moreover I have been in contact with the STM publishers (see http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/02/04/bibliographic-data-is-open/ ) and they have agreed that they agree with this. That gives us a useful legal reference if we wish to start annotating documents with Bibliography (which is part of what we intend to do at our upcoing BtPDF-inspired hackfest).

The immediate difficulty is that there are few - if any - Open collections of bibliographic data (Scopus, WorldOfScience, Mendeley... are not Open). A collection of Open bibliographic items is not by default Open (in fact by default it is the copyright of the compiler). We may not like this (I don't) but it seems to be the law. Note that by default NO citation iformation is Open unless it comes from an Open Access or Open Data resource. That's a major barrier to modern scholarship, but that's the way it seems to be... It means we cannot follow citation trails without the explicit permission of the "owners" (a word deliberately in quotes).

So in the hackfest we are going to use alternative Open collections of biliographic data. No, I'm not going to announce how. Maybe you should come to the hackfest.

But we are appealing to anyone who has collections of bibliographic data to make them Open. Even a smallish collection can be valuable - it could be the definitive resource for a given area of scholarship. Typical examples could be reading lists or reference lists from key resources.

Note of course that an Open bibliographic collection can (and unfortunately usually does) point to closed resources. But maybe that's better than nothing?

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Anita de Waard <a.dewaard at elsevier.com<mailto:a.dewaard at elsevier.com>> wrote:
FYI - this seems very relevant for our discussion,
best,

Anita

blio.net/principles/endorse/<http://openbiblio.net/principles/endorse/>



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