[open-bibliography] getting a personal bib library out

Sun Feb 5 23:32:36 UTC 2012

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Jim Pitman <pitman at stat.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> We cannot expect all BibJSON users to follow this chain of reasoning. We must be explicit about it in the spec.

So we should put a line on bibjson.org that says biblio metadata are facts.

>> > I think a one-line indication of license just pointing to a license url in each record would be good.
> Just a url, yes, for the license assertion on the biblio record, that might be useful.
> Biblio records may carry baggage with them which is licensable or copyrightable even if the basic metadata are not.
> Especially, I think we should consider a practice of attaching abstracts and keywords or subject tags, even if taken from
> a publisher's site, with a claim of "fair use" by US copyright doctrine.

license may as well be a list of objects, because there are licenses
without URLs. Even if someone like the OKF maintained a list, there
would be a time where there was a license not on that list. Making it
an object saves anyone maintaining a list.

If you want to apply a license to the metadata record itself, then you
will need a separate key for that.

Mark