Through the grapevine -- specifically, Pascal Calarco -- I learned of the following announcement regarding the application of CC licensing against MARC records by the University of Florida:
Beginning March 2011, the University of Florida Smathers
Libraries implemented a policy to include a Creative Commons
license in all of its original cataloging records. The records
are considered public domain with unrestricted downstream use for
any purpose.
The following MARC 588 field (Source of Description Note) is
added to new records contributed to WorldCat. It has not been
added retrospectively to University of Florida original records
in WorldCat.
588::|a This bibliographic record is available under a
Creative Commons CC0 license. The University of Florida
Libraries, as creator of this bibliographic record, has
waived all rights to it worldwide under copyright law,
including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent
allowed by law.
The University of Florida OPAC (a Solr/Lucene search engine) is
configured to display a Creative Commons CC0 license statement
based on the presence of a University of Florida OCLC symbol in
the MARC 040 field |a. The specified 040 |a is mapped to the
originalcataloger_text field in the Solr/Lucene record if it
exists in incoming records. This allows the statement to be
displayed in the OPAC for original records retrospectively, i.e.,
records without the 588 field, and appear in RSS feeds.
See http://bit.ly/hAsh7Y Kudos!
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Eric Lease Morgan
University of Notre Dame
Received on Fri Mar 18 2011 - 10:41:45 EDT