Date: August, 7th 2012, 15:00 GMT
Channels: Meeting was held via Skype and Etherpad
Participants
- Jim Pitman
- Karen Coyle
- Naomi Lillie
Agenda
JISC Open Biblio 2 project coming to close
- Blog-post write-up of project being finished this week, Mark MacGillivray reporting back to JISC in late September
- Further funding being explored mainly in terms of related work
ISBNdb http://isbndb.com/
- Similar to BibJSON
- Uses other sources, has no explicit license / restrictions
- API will give 500 returns a day
- Jim’s example: http://isbndb.com/d/person/pitman_jim/books.html
- author identity is not working very well – this example contains a book that isn’t Jim’s
- There is no record without an ISBN – seems to be no information from pre-1970
- Claims to have 7million books but only 2m authors – FAQs state that records are gleaned from different libraries so duplication is likely
- Open Library is possibly a better source
Karen’s most recent blog: http://kcoyle.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/fair-use-deja-vu.html
- “The argument that Google has made from the beginning of its book scanning project is that copying for the purpose of providing keyword access to full texts is fair use”
- HathiTrust has been in court to defend the storing and searching of metadata
Actions:
- Next meeting on Tuesday 4th September 2012
- KC apologies – away at DublinCore conference
- Will include what we hope to do at OKFest
