[open-bibliography] Fwd: LibraryCloud university of florida

[Jonathan Gray]

Thanks very much for this Tim! Great news.

Adrian, Mark: shall we put an item about this on openbiblio.net? We
could tag things like this 'data releases' or something. This would
also be *very* useful to have as an archive.

J.

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Tim Spalding <tim at librarything.com> wrote:
> Eric Lease Morgan said I could send this, which went to another list we're on:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Eric Lease Morgan <eric.lease.morgan at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:36 AM
> Subject: LibraryCloud university of florida
>
> The following from the University of Florida may be of interest to the group:
>
>  Beginning March 2011, the University of Florida Smathers
>  Libraries implemented a policy to include a Creative Commons
>  license in all of its original cataloging records. The records
>  are considered public domain with unrestricted downstream use for
>  any purpose.
>
>  The following MARC 588 field (Source of Description Note) is
>  added to new records contributed to WorldCat. It has not been
>  added retrospectively to University of Florida original records
>  in WorldCat.
>
>    588::|a This bibliographic record is available under a
>    Creative Commons CC0 license. The University of Florida
>    Libraries, as creator of this bibliographic record, has
>    waived all rights to it worldwide under copyright law,
>    including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent
>    allowed by law.
>
>  The University of Florida OPAC (a Solr/Lucene search engine) is
>  configured to display a Creative Commons CC0 license statement
>  based on the presence of a University of Florida OCLC symbol in
>  the MARC 040 field |a. The specified 040 |a is mapped to the
>  originalcataloger_text field in the Solr/Lucene record if it
>  exists in incoming records.  This allows the statement to be
>  displayed in the OPAC for original records retrospectively, i.e.,
>  records without the 588 field, and appear in RSS feeds.
>
>
> See http://bit.ly/hAsh7Y
>
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> Eric Lease Morgan
> University of Notre Dame
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