Minutes: 24th Virtual Meeting of the OKFN Working Group for Open Bibliographic Data

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

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