This is really great and I hope that other libraries will follow.
*But* the question will be how to incorporate all of this together in a coherent way. The standards of CERN are quite different from Anglo-American standards. Below is a record taken at random, with the record pf the same item in LC. After a quick look, I see that in CERN there is no size; in the LC record the place of publication reflects AACR2 practice of adding a place within the country of the cataloging agency; there are differences in the date of publication vs. date of copyright; no statement of responsibility and no edition statement in the CERN record; the paging itself is different. These last are important for AACR2's determination of copy vs. new edition. CERN's subjects reflect their narrower collecting focus vs. LCSH's broader focus, e.g. "Python" vs. "Python (Computer program language)." Noel Rappin's name does not have the date of birth as occurs in the NAF. There are several other differences, including some of differing cataloging philosophies.
None of this is to find fault, but rather, while the sharing is great, that is only a first step. How can we use these records in the best, most efficient way for our own purposes and for our users? Of course, some of these problems can be solved with URIs, but I don't believe everything can. Do we just settle for a mashup or can we do something else?
Jim Weinheimer
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LC Control No.: 2003266066
LCCN Permalink: http://lccn.loc.gov/2003266066
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300 __ |a xx, 277 p. : |b ill. ; |c 23 cm.
500 __ |a "Rapid scripting in Java"--Cover.
504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references (p. xvi-xvii) and index.
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James Weinheimer j.weinheimer_at_aur.edu
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-----Original Message-----
From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Adrian Pohl
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 1:33 PM
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [NGC4LIB] The CERN Library publishes its book catalog as Open Data
Good news. The CERN library has published its data under a public domain license and works on migrating it into linked data. Hopefully lots of libraries (and at best OCLC with its forthcoming metadata policy) will follow this example.
Adrian
The CERN Library publishes its book catalog as Open Data
Librarians are in general very favourable to the principles of Open Access, but surprisingly few libraries have so far set free the data they produce themselves. As one of the first scientific libraries in the world, the CERN Library offers now the bibliographic book records, held in its library catalog, to be freely downloaded by any third party. The records are provided under the Public Domain Data License, a license that permits colleagues around the world to reuse and upgrade the data for any purpose.
Jens Vigen, Head of the CERN Library, says: "Books should only be catalogued once. Currently the public purse pays for having the same book catalogued over and over again. Librarians should act as they preach: data sets created through public funding should be made freely available to anyone interested. Open Access is natural for us, here at CERN we believe in openness and reuse. There is a tremendous potential. By getting academic libraries worldwide involved in this movement, it will lead to a natural atmosphere of sharing and reusing bibliographic data in a rich landscape of so-called mash-up services, where most of the actors who will be involved, both among the users and the providers, will not even be library users or librarians. Our action is made in the spirit of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities; bibliographic data belongs to the cultural heritage.All other signatories should align their policy accordingly."
The data of CERN Library will be used by the Open Library Project to provide a webpage for every book and allow users to add content like table of contents, classifications and summaries.
For massive reuse of data, the data will be provided soon by an open Z39.50, SRU and OAI interface via biblios.net, a repository of open bibliographic data.
The whole dataset can be downloaded from
http://cern.ch/bookdata
The press announcement is accompanied by a YouTube Video that can be found at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CSmieTXbsk
Received on Mon Feb 01 2010 - 08:14:37 EST