[open-bibliography] OCLC adds Linked Data to WorldCat.org | DDC 23 released as linked data at dewey.info

Sun Jun 24 13:22:13 UTC 2012

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Mathias Schindler <
mathias.schindler at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:08 AM, todd.d.robbins at gmail.com
> <todd.d.robbins at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just a few links to go with the fabulous news:
> >
> > http://www.oclc.org/us/en/news/releases/2012/201238.htm
> >
> http://dataliberate.com/2012/06/oclc-worldcat-linked-data-release-significant-in-many-ways/
> > http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/http://purl.org/library/
> > http://www.oclc.org/data.html
> >
>
> OCLC later released a statement that there won't be a data dump of the
> ODC-by-licensed data for what they describe as technical reasons.
>

>From (4) in the Open Defintions I quote:
4. Absence of Technological Restriction

The work must be provided in such a form that there are no technological
obstacles to the performance of the above activities. This can be achieved
by the provision of the work in an open data format, i.e. one whose
specification is publicly and freely available and which places no
restrictions monetary or otherwise upon its use.
I am not familiar with the details of what OCLC is releasing but it I would
have thought the provider had a duty to make it possible to access all the
content in some way (dumps and iterators are the two things that come to
mind). Do OCLC give an indication of how to get all the data? Because
simply saying "our data is Open but you can't get it" isn't really Open.

I have some sympathy for data providers as I have had to create a set of
crawlers to download Open Data that I have collected. It's a non-trivial
problem.

> Mathias
>
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