By way of Thomas Krichel and the OSS4Lib mailing list, I learned of the following four Open Bibliography Principles from the Open Knowledge Foundation. I believe the principles are quite germain to the NGC4Lib community:
Producers of bibliographic data such as libraries, publishers,
universities, scholars or social reference management communities
have an important role in supporting the advance of humanity’s
knowledge. For society to reap the full benefits from
bibliographic endeavours, it is imperative that bibliographic
data be made open — that is available for anyone to use and
re-use freely for any purpose.
1. When publishing bibliographic data make an explicit and robust
license statement.
2. Use a recognized waiver or license that is appropriate for data.
3. If you want your data to be effectively used and added to by
others it should be open as defined by the Open Definition
(http://opendefinition.org) – in particular non-commercial and
other restrictive clauses should not be used.
4. Where possible, explicitly place bibliographic data in the Public
Domain via PDDL or CC0.
To endorse the Principles and/or for more detail, see -- http://bit.ly/rg9TkG
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Eric Lease Morgan
University of Notre Dame
Received on Tue Sep 06 2011 - 13:15:24 EDT