This is fantastic. Way to go UF. If they would also add this in a
machine readable way (unfortunately, I have no idea where this should
go), we could filter records like these programmatically and reuse
them with confidence.
Thanks for pointing this out, Eric (and, by extension, Pascal).
-Ross.
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_nd.edu> wrote:
> 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!
>
> --
> Eric Lease Morgan
> University of Notre Dame
>
Received on Fri Mar 18 2011 - 11:54:50 EDT