[open-bibliography] Introducing Knowledge for All

Thu Oct 27 14:17:55 UTC 2011

Thanks for your interest and questions, everyone.  Mark Leggott, the founder
and a board member on the Knowledge for All project, already addressed most
of the questions that came up, but I wanted to mention a few things.

We have published our Software Requirements Specification
document<http://www.k4all.ca/strategic-plan/technology-strategy/software-requirements-specification>for
the Knowledge for All system on our website.  It was written by a
non-techie (me) and doesn't cover everything that was brought up in this
discussion but it provides some further information on the data formats,
software, and data services we are developing.  As Mark mentioned, we'll be
publishing more information shortly on how the specs have been translated
into the system that's under development.

I'd be happy to discuss integrating the BibServer tool into the Knowledge
for All system for reference management capabilities, as we're not planning
to develop an alternative.  This has been on my mind since speaking with
Mark, Adrian, and others at OKCon.

We are only planning to host scholarly journal and journal article data at
this point, not other types of bibliographic data such as books or
monographs, but we intend to be comprehensive in this and eventually cover
all published scholarly journals.  We will be able to begin hosting data
early in the new year.

In terms of licensing, we were originally planning to use a CC0 or ODC
Public Domain Dedication and License for our data but recently revisited
this and decided on an attribution license, as this will give us access to
more existing data sets.  I was under the understanding that an ODC license
would be more appropriate for our data than a CC license, but I'm interested
in further discussion around whether a bibliographic record is actually a
text file, as Jim pointed out.

I'm copying this message to David Evans, our system developer, so he can see
the previous discussions on versioning control and data formats which are
relevant to his work.  He may have some further comments.

Amanda

-- 
Amanda Stevens
Project Manager
Knowledge for All
astevens at k4all.ca
http://k4all.ca

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Thomas Krichel <krichel at openlib.org>wrote:

>  Mark Leggott writes
>
> > The idea of a "repository for biblio datasets" is part of the K4All
> > plan. We will be posting more detail on the technical architecture
> > shortly,
>
>   In the meantime, since the server sponsored by OKFN is
>  full, and I have never been able to reach anybody responsible
>  for it, could you provide a server for the data that I already
>  have?
>
> > but the goal is to have a rich internal XML schema for
> > metadata that can be mapped to other schemas/formats, similar to what
> > you are suggesting below.
>
>   You mean what Jim suggested.
>
> > The data will be stored in the Fedora repository framework, which
> > provides a great deal of flexibility in how you get the data in and
> > out.
>
>   Bulk downloads via rsync would be sufficient.
>
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
>                                      http://authorprofile.org/pkr1
>                                               skype: thomaskrichel
>
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