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

Sat Jan 19 22:59:13 UTC 2013

Re: serials metadata. 

CrossRef serves up metadata (RDF, and BibTex) via content negotiation. It's not directly from the publishers, but it is submitted by them as a part of the DOI registration process. 

I'm not sure if there is clear licensing or not. 

On Jan 19, 2013, at 13:54, Karen Coyle <kcoyle at kcoyle.net> wrote:

> I was thinking of sound recordings, since, AFAIK, the market for scores is pretty much a niche market. Much of the impetus for creating and spreading metadata has been online sales sites like Amazon, and perhaps iTunes (although I do not know where the latter gets its metadata from). You can easily find studies addressed to the publishing industry about metadata and sales -- although, in fact, these aren't as conclusive as one might hope.
> 
> kc
> 
> On 1/19/13 1:18 PM, Matthew Dovey wrote:
>> I must confess when I first saw the posts about publishers giving metadata
>> away, I initially read that as referencing monograph/book publishers since
>> these are likely to see the metadata as purely advertising/marketing
>> material to the like of Amazon et al. and didn't initially think of serials.
>> 
>> I think there may also be different economic models in the music publishing
>> world as well - when you say "music publishers" are you talking about
>> publishers of music scores or publishers of musical performances (e.g.
>> audio/video)?
>> 
>> Matthew
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: open-bibliography-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:open-bibliography-
>>> bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle
>>> Sent: 19 January 2013 20:44
>>> To: Peter Murray-Rust; List for Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data
>>> Subject: Re: [open-bibliography] Inviting community engagement on building
>>> a bibliographic roadmap
>>> 
>>> Right, the folks giving away their metadata (because it helps sales) are
>>> generally the book publishers. Journal publication has an entirely
>> different
>>> economic model because it' isn't a one-time sale but a subscription, and I
>>> haven't found a publisher-provided metadata for journal publications
>> (which
>>> would cover the publication, not its contents). If journal publishers
>> would get
>>> away from the serial view and publish and sell articles as monographs, we
>>> might see a major change in their view of metadata. In fact, the whole
>>> journal format is beginning to look old-fashioned to me as a product
>>> category.
>>> 
>>> I don't know yet about music publishers -- I don't think they yet have a
>>> standard metadata format.
>>> 
>>> kc.
>>> 
>>> On 1/19/13 11:51 AM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle at kcoyle.net
>>>> <mailto:kcoyle at kcoyle.net>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>     Sorry, Roy. Just wanted some examples of publishers making their
>>>>     ONIX data openly available. I'll look for a better example.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks - and I assume that Bibserver can hack this. It looks like it's
>>>> monographs not serials.
>>>> 
>>>> P.
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>>> Reader in Molecular Informatics
>>>> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
>>>> University of Cambridge
>>>> CB2 1EW, UK
>>>> +44-1223-763069
>>> 
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