[open-bibliography] OCLC agrees to CC0 with Sweden

Mon Feb 17 09:06:48 UTC 2014

Dear all,

The European Library (http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/)  is currently working with all National Libraries in Europe to produce CC0 Linked Open Data related to their bibliographic datasets . We had hoped to get this published in January, but it's taking a bit longer with some of the libraries less familiar with CC0.

We are also working with the RLUK (Research Libraries UK) consortium to do the same for data about their library holdings (about 30 UK research libraries, plus Trinity in Dublin)

I spoke to Adrian about this a while back at one of the meetings - he might be able to locate the notes

Happy to speak more about this as required.

Alastair

Alastair Dunning
Programme Manager, The European Library
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From: open-bibliography [mailto:open-bibliography-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of David Weinberger
Sent: 14 February 2014 14:37
To: List for Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data
Subject: Re: [open-bibliography] OCLC agrees to CC0 with Sweden

Excellent news. Get one more national library to agree, and, yes, let's claim it's the new norm! :)

Also, just a reminder that in April 2012, OCLC agreed to let Harvard release its (Harvard's) catalog data as CC0, including records that benefited from OCLC's data enhancement as per Karen's msg. http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/

- David Weinberger

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk<mailto:pm286 at cam.ac.uk>> wrote:
That's very good news. Do we assume that the records originally "belonged" to OCLC because they built the system. Is there anything specially related to national libraries in this?

When we started the JISC Open Bibliography project (was it 5 years ago?) one goal was to work with the BL on Open Bibliography and during the project they released the Brit Nat Bibliography as CC0. Other national libraries have followed suit. So can we now make an effective case that this should be the norm for all national libraries?

P

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle at kcoyle.net<mailto:kcoyle at kcoyle.net>> wrote:
I don't have the details of the contract, but I have learned that, after about 10 years of discussions, OCLC has agreed that the National Library of Sweden can release OCLC-derived records in its LIBRIS catalog under a CC0 license. This is good news, and let's hope that it sets a precedent for other libraries.

kc

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