[open-bibliography] OCLC agrees to CC0 with Sweden

[Adrian Pohl]

On 17 February 2014 10:06, Alastair Dunning
<alastair.dunning at theeuropeanlibrary.org> wrote:

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

The notes are at http://new.okfnpad.org/p/33rd-open-bibliography-meeting

- Adrian

On 17 February 2014 10:06, Alastair Dunning
<alastair.dunning at theeuropeanlibrary.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
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> 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.
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> 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)
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> I spoke to Adrian about this a while back at one of the meetings – he might
> be able to locate the notes
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> Happy to speak more about this as required.
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> Alastair
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> Alastair Dunning
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> Programme Manager, The European Library
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> http://theeuropeanlibrary.org
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> (Based in the National Library of the Netherlands)
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> skype: xcia0069
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> twitter: alastairdunning
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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
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>
>
> Excellent news. Get one more national library to agree, and, yes, let's
> claim it's the new norm! :)
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> 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/
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> - David Weinberger
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> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <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?
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> 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?
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> P
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> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Karen Coyle <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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