[open-bibliography] [openbiblio-dev] Survey for GLAM Institutions in France

Mon Feb 13 16:11:08 UTC 2012

The obvious first question is whether they know if they hold the rights 
to their own metadata. If they do hold the rights, then it comes down to 
1) their willingness to share 2) any technical impediments.

kc

On 2/13/12 7:28 AM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
> Forwarded to openbiblio as it's of general interest
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> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Primavera De Filippi<pdefilippi at gmail.com
>> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>> a survey is being organized by the French ministry of culture to
>> understand the status of museums, libraries and archives of France in their
>> relationship with "open cultural data"
>> The idea is to identify which cultural institutions are already opening up
>> their data, which ones are not, and which ones are planning on doing it.
>> The survey currently covers questions concerning the type of data, content
>> or information proceeded by each institution, the procedure of production
>> and how the data is used, legal and economic aspects of data reuse,
>> prospectives for opening up data.
>>
>> I mentioned the possibility of introducing questions concerning
>> bibliographic metadata, so as to identify the institutions who have not yet
>> openly disclosed their metadata to the public but would be willing to do
>> so. I have thus been asked to contribute to the survey by adding questions
>> concerning bibliographic metadata. If anyone on the list has any idea or
>> suggestions on what kind of questions would be relevant to ask to those
>> institutions, please let me know !
>> The first draft of the questionnaire has to be submitted y the 14th of
>> february (tomorrow) so it is pretty urgent  :)
>>
>> Finally, a conference/workshop will be organized in April to discuss the
>> results of the survey directly with the representatives of GLAM
>> institutions. I have been asked to intervene as part of Creative Commons,
>> it would be nice to take advantage of this opportunity to propose to some
>> of these institutions (who still have no idea how which format to use) to
>> adopt bibjson/bibserver/bibsoup as an easy and interoperable solution for
>> opening up their data.
>> What do you think?
>>
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