[open-bibliography] OCLC and FamilySearch partnership will combine resources for richer genealogy research experience

Tue Feb 5 14:37:37 UTC 2013

I wouldn't say it's changed much in the way of "openness" as defined by the
Open Definition and the various open licensing models, but it does
aggregate the indexes of Family search into an international linked data
system in WorldCat. I see it more as a start, and since OCLC is moving
toward linked open data this partnership could help foster more openness
within FamilySearch.

Cheers!

On Tuesday, February 5, 2013, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:56 AM, todd.d.robbins at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'todd.d.robbins at gmail.com');>
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>> Very encouraging and exciting news:
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>> http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2013/20135.htm
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> I don't immediately see that this makes any information more Openly
> available. It seems a closed cartel. Or am I missing something?
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>> Now to see if FamilySearch can be encourage to openly license their
>> metadata.
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