[open-bibliography] FAST as "open" data

Thomas Krichel krichel at openlib.org
Fri Jan 6 09:57:05 UTC 2012


  Eric Childress writes

> All said, now that the holiday break is over, OCLC will be making FAST
> available as a dump on our web site under the ODC-BY license in the
> near future.

  I would have thought that making a dump available should not
  take more than 30 minutes. But maybe I should not take the 
  standards of the Open Library Society as a yardstick to measure
  what OCLC are able to do.


  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
                                      http://authorprofile.org/pkr1
                                               skype: thomaskrichel




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