I'm curious as to what some of you want to do with such large files of
records? For cataloging copy, I can see the need for a searchable file
with record download capability but what will you do with files of 600K+
records for your individual use or that of your respective libraries or
organizations?
- Michele
On 3/18/2011 12:22 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
> Seconding Ross's suggestion, and hoping for a way to extract these
> records in bulk, or for UF to do so. Note that U Michigan has also
> identified its own original cataloging and has made the file available:
> http://ckan.net/package/umich-marc-records-cc0
>
> Of course, now we need these all searchable so they can be re-used.
> But this is a great start.
>
> kc
>
> Quoting Ross Singer <rossfsinger_at_GMAIL.COM>:
>
>> 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
>>
>
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