[open-bibliography] Inviting community engagement on building a bibliographic roadmap

Tue Jan 15 19:44:50 UTC 2013

Hi Tom,   (Is this the same Tom from Wikipedia?)

I'm actually planning an event (small scale, about 40 people) for the 
"main players" (or those who have potential to be) in OpenGLAM in the US 
in March. I do intend on inviting folks from LC, DPLA, OpenLibrary, 
OCLC, etc (Google...I'm not so sure at this point...but, this is based 
on my professional and personal opinions about Google, digitization, 
copyright, etc...so if my "bosses" say we must invite Google, then I'd 
invite someone from Google..but, I've been well burned I'm still nursing 
my wounds :) )

We'll also be inviting some folks from Europe who are key leaders as 
well, so we can have further partnerships transatlantically, as Jonathan 
mentioned, and pull ideas and inspiration from what is happening with 
Europeana, etc, in the US.

I'm working on it :)

-Sarah

On 1/15/13 10:43 AM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com 
> <mailto:tfmorris at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Perhaps the documentation and PR doesn't do justice to what is
>     actually going to happen, but I'd be a lot more impressed if the LC,
>     DPLA, Google (both Books & Search), OpenLibrary, OCLC and an open
>     source ILS team or two got together and said we're going to sit down
>     and figure out how we work together.
>
>
> And Europeana. ;-)
>
> Sam, Joris and Sarah (in cc) have been thinking about how we can 
> support greater transatlantic coordination re: opening up metadata 
> from GLAM institutions. We have starting thinking about 
> activities/event in this area for 2013 and it would be great to swap 
> notes on this front.
>
> We also wanted to use this to start connecting open digitisation 
> initiatives, so we can start to figure out where there are open copies 
> of public domain works - and what needs to be done [1].
>
> J.
>
> [1] http://blog.okfn.org/2011/07/06/lets-open-up-the-public-domain/
>
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Sarah Stierch
US OpenGLAM Coordinator, Open Knowledge Foundation
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