[open-bibliography] Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L) project

[David Weinberger]

>From Dean Krafft, the instigator of the Mellon Linked Data project:
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The goal is, in fact, to do Linked Open Data. Here's the appropriate
language from page 3 of the proposal:



"While Linked Data can be used internally within an institution or across a
collaborative group, it becomes much more valuable when it is Linked
*Open* Data,
and is publicly shared using an open license such as the Creative Commons
CC-BY[1] <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#143f8efc726ed2dd__ftn1> or
CC0[2] <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#143f8efc726ed2dd__ftn2>
licenses,
or the United Kingdom's Open Government
License[3]<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#143f8efc726ed2dd__ftn3>.
For our Linked Data for Libraries project, our intention is that all SRSIS
instances will share Linked Open Data with the world."



Since we're publishing our own metadata, and we don't actually have a lot
of metadata for journal articles, there won't be a lot of that in the mix.
But what we do have should definitely be open.


-- forwarded by David Weinberger


On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> If it's going to be called LOD then it has to have an Open licence (first
> star of TimBL). If it isn't Open, use the LOD hammer to make them make it
> Open.
>
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> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Adrian Pohl <adrian.pohl at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> The Mellon-funded Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L) project at Cornell,
>> Harvard and Stanford might bring things forward regarding the
>> availability of open bibliographic data on the web. See the recent
>> blog post on the project by David Weinberger.[1]
>>
>> In the December announcement[2] of the project from Harvard it reads:
>> "Ultimately, the goal of the project is to create a system that pulls
>> information out of its existing silos--like library catalogs, finding
>> aids, reading lists and more--into a common format that people can use
>> to  find and understand information. This new system would apply to
>> all scholarly and creative disciplines, including the sciences, the
>> arts and  the humanities."
>>
>> The question is whether the project's goal is linked _open_ data, i.e.
>> publishing large amounts of bibliographic data for journal articles
>> etc. under an open license. Or whether the goal is to have the data on
>> the web as linked data but without open licensing...
>>
>> Can anybody on this list provide some more information on this project
>> regarding openbiblio data?
>>
>> - Adrian
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2014/02/01/linked-data-for-libraries-and-were-off/
>> [2]
>> http://library.harvard.edu/12162013-1308/harvard-cornell-stanford-libraries-project-receives-grant
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