[open-bibliography] Post about openbiblio data from Finland's Vaski consortia

Fri Oct 14 19:42:27 UTC 2011

Hello,

there are currently three openbiblio datasets from Finland. Mace was
involded in the recent release from the Vaski consortia and his post
is focused on this release which is licensed with CC0. You find the
respective the Data Hub entry here:
http://thedatahub.org/dataset/vaski-libraries-bibliographic-data

The HELMET data was already opened up in June 2010 - under a CC-BY-SA
license. And there's also the General Finnish Thesaurus (YSA) which is
published under CC-BY, see http://thedatahub.org/dataset/ysa.

Adrian

2011/10/14 Jim Pitman <pitman at stat.berkeley.edu>:
>> Mace Ojala has published a post about open data at the Finnish Vaski
>> consortia on the openbiblio blog, see
>> http://openbiblio.net/2011/10/13/finnish-turku-city-library-and-the-vaski-consortia-now-open-data-with-1-8m-marc-records/
>
>
> Great to see.
>
> There is some confusion about the license however.
> On the blog post and at http://data.kirjastot.fi/data.html I see CC0
> But at   http://thedatahub.org/dataset/helmet I see the license text "CC Share-Alike" with a link
> to http://opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by-sa/
>
> What are the implications of wrapping CC0 in CC-BY-SA?
>
> Was this a deliberate change of license?
>
> If deliberate, where exactly is the "BY" requirement defined?
> (Who is the "creator" of this dataset, and who is licensing it: the finnish library or OKFN?)
>
> Or is it just a mistake?
>
> --Jim
>