[open-bibliography] Orphan data

[John Mark Ockerbloom]

On 03/02/2012 10:49 AM, Karen Coyle wrote:
> Yes, this is the kind of thing I am looking for. Can we come up with a standard
> way, not unlike CC, that states: we have no idea who owns this stuff, no one is
> claiming ownership, etc. etc. As more and more data (and metadata) comes onto
> the web we will have more of these situations.

A number of cultural institutions (including LC and the Smithsonian)
use a "no known restrictions" or "no known copyright restrictions" notation
(this is standard in Flickr Commons, for instance).  I think I recall hearing
a while of some efforts to create a standard coding for that, but I can't
find the discussions off the top of my head.

John