Comments on: Principles for Open Bibliographic Data

By: Author Identity and Open Bibliography « IMS Bulletin

Author Identity and Open Bibliography « IMS Bulletin — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:18:06 +0000

[...] to scholars through a growing variety of academic information services. This is the idea behind the Principles for Open Bibliographic Datadeveloped by the Open Knowledge Foundation. See also the recent article Open Bibliography for [...]

By: Thursday Threads: Refining Data, Ebook Costs, Open Bibliographic Data, Copyright Infringement | Disruptive Library Technology Jester

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:21:29 +0000

[...] review these principles, discuss the text and suggest improvements.Here are the highlights of the five principles mentioned in the post: when publishing data make an explicit and robust license statement; use a recognized waver or [...]

By: mace

mace — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:22:04 +0000

Good principles, i think.

Here in Finland we cannot at the moment publish authority files/databases of the authors, because privacy laws protect the authors against that. But there's a whole lot of other stuff we could publish (working on it as we speak, but things happen slowly)!

By: Adrian Pohl

Adrian Pohl — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:34:22 +0000

Thanks for the feedback.

@Simon Biographicdata is already implicitely covered by including the name authority files of libraries which contain these information. I don't know whether publishers usually have such biographic information, e.g. in article metadata. If they do we should explicitely include biographic data if they don't I think it is enough to include authority files like we already have.

@Laura Yes, any license appropriate for data is also appropriate for metadata. This should be made more clear in the final version.

By: Book liberation with open data (or, how The Online Books Page just got much bigger) « Everybody's Libraries

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:43:39 +0000

[...] generally available for non-commercial use. And the Open Knowledge Foundation has also released a draft of working principles for open bibliographic data, recommending that bibliographic data be made available with as few restrictions as possible [...]

By: Laura James

Laura James — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:57:17 +0000

So, for clarification of the second principle, is any licence appropriate for data, also appropriate for metadata? The phrasing of that section doesn't seem 100% clear to me and I'd be nervous about referring others to it in that form.

By: Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Cambridge - Principles for Open Bibliographic Data – please comment « petermr’s blog

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 10:58:23 +0000

[…] a deadline of yesterday for DRAFT principles and he’s published them on openbiblio.net: http://openbiblio.net/2010/10/15/principles-for-open-bibliographic-data/ PLEASE READ THESE . It is vitally important that you agree with my analysis or challenge it. Apathy […]

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Links 15/10/2010: Wine 1.3.5 Out, Ubuntu 11.04 is Developed | Techrights — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:19:41 +0000

[...] Principles for Open Bibliographic Data While first attempts were mainly directed towards libraries and other public institutions we decided to broaden the principle’s scope by amalgamating it with Peter Murray-Rust’s draft publisher guidelines. The results can be seen below. We ask anyone to review these principles, discuss the text and suggest improvements. [...]

By: Simon Tarlink

Simon Tarlink — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:00:30 +0000

It truly would be helpful if, in addition to all the bibliographic data, you could include the biographic data for the author--at least the Date of Birth and Date of Death (if any). This would permit an evaluation of whether the book is in the Public Domain in Canada.

Similar data on any other significant contributors (editor, illustrator or graphic artist, translator if applicable...) would also be helpful.

Simon Tarlink Site Administrator Distributed Proofreaders Canada (part of the world-wide Project Gutenberg volunteer network)

[Full disclosure: Distributed Proofreaders Canada converts scans of Public Domain books into complete and accurate e-books (not merely scansets)]

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Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:30:10 +0000

[…] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Glyn Moody, Mathias Schindler, Peter Murray-Rust, Lukas Koster, John Dupuis and others. John Dupuis said: RT @petermurrayrust: http://bit.ly/ayFXnq Principles for Open Bibliographic Data – comments welcome and also advocacy […]