Minutes: 8th Virtual meeting of the OKFN Openbiblio Group

Date: February, 1st 2011, 16:00-17:15 GMT

Channel: Meeting was held via Skype and Etherpad

Participants

  • Adrian Pohl
  • Karen Coyle
  • Rufus Pollock
  • Thomas Krichel
  • Tatiana de la O

Openbiblio Principles: What’s next?

As the Principles on Open Bibliographic Data have been published we discussed what to do to broaden their reception and endorsement. We collected the following:

  • Contact organisations to sign the principles. Here is a short list of organisations we came up with:
    • AGRIS
    • Europeana
    • hbz
    • Institutional Repositories
    • Libraries
    • Project Gutenberg
    • Open Library
    • Internet Archive
    • BASE
  • Create a call for endorsement to be used in blog posts and mails to mailing lists, individuals and organizations.
  • Provide a button (similar to these) to show support for open bibliograpic data which is proposed to put on one’s page after signing the principles.
  • Enable organizations to include their logo in the endorsement list.
    • ACTION: Karen will approach the Internet Archive to endorse the principles
    • ACTION: Thomas will contact BASE.
    • ACTION: Karen will write a call for endorsement.
    • ACTION: Adrian will create a button to show support for openbiblio (not to mark openbiblio data) .
    • ACTION: Rufus will implement the possibility for organizations to include their logo in the endorsement list.

Working with Open Library Society (OLS)

  • Thomas gives a short characterization of the Open Library Society: It focuses on scientific publication data (journal articles, papers but not monographs) and promotes open services around it. (See http://3lib.org/ for data that is gathered by OLS and used in their services.)
  • Open Library Society’s policy is to not scrape data and acknowledge all sources.
  • A problem with OLS data is that it isn’t clean open data as some isn’t licensed at all and e.g. Repec data forbids commercial use. As OKFN is interested in clean open data there’s a problem with this.
  • Thomas emphasizes that at least author claim data is open the legal status of the other data sets has yet to be determined/declared.
    • ACTION: Ask 3lib providers whether their data is free using http://isitopendata.org/.
    • ACTION: Thomas will start with contacting DBLP regarding open licensing.

Open Bibliographic Data Challenge

Rufus gave some information about the running openbiblio challenge. Already submitted ideas can be seen here.

Reports from events and other projects

Karen reported on this:

  • At the American Library Association’s meeting a new Interest Group on Linked Library Data was founded which will comprise the topic open data.
  • At the Knowledge Organization Conference in Oslo (January 2011) (see also Karen’s post about it) open data – as far as Karen could understand – wasn’t touched.
  • The W3C LLD Incubator group endorsed the use of CKAN for listing Linked Library Data sets.

Action Collection

  • Karen will approach the Internet Archive to endorse the principles
  • Thomas will contact BASE.
  • Karen will write a call for endorsement.
  • Adrian will create a button to show support for openbiblio (not to mark openbiblio data) .
  • Rufus will implement the possibility for organizations to include their logo in the endorsement list.
  • Ask 3lib providers whether their data is free using http://isitopendata.org/.
  • Thomas will start with contacting DBLP regarding open licensing.
  • NEXT MEETING: Discuss how to improve the openbiblio webpresence at http://openbiblio.net.
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