[open-bibliography] Wikipedia project: bibliographic-archival data base

Thu Sep 15 18:21:12 UTC 2011

Hello,

I just want to point to Peter's blog post which was triggered by and
references the "open" discussion:

http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/09/15/open-api-or-glorious-api/

Thank you, Peter, couldn't agree more with you.

I myself am very grateful for the OKFN having developed the Open
Knowledge Definition and find it very important in creating a
knowledge ecology where the different parts are legally compatible,
combinable and mixable. Open W3C standards for Linked Data might bring
the corresponding technical compatibility in the future...

All the best
Adrian

2011/9/13 Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>:
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle at kcoyle.net> wrote:
>>
>> Quoting Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>:
>>
>>> * all references should - if possible - include a description of the
>>> rights
>>> of the referenced object. e.g. if someone references an Open Access
>>> paper,
>>> then it should be denoted as such in WP. This would be a tremendous
>>> example
>>> of the power of OB.
>>
>> But we do need metadata for rights in order to do that. I did a rights
>> metadata schema for the University of California some years ago, although it
>> may be too complex (it was designed to also meet the needs of archives). DC
>> has a rights field that is very simple - it would be good, though, to define
>> a set of values. Does anyone know of a rights vocabulary we could use?
>>
> DC, which does not have a controlled vocabulary. And CC which can be
> rendered in RDF.
>
> I think we need this rapidly. There is also an argument for a vocabulary of
> values, e.g.
> licence = CC0
>
> where each of these could be a URI.
>
> Given the previous discussion I think licences would be a good place to
> start. They are neecessary if not sufficient.
>
>
>
> --
> Peter Murray-Rust
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