HBZ (the North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre in Germany) have recently released 15.5million records under CC0 - with provenance information included for the first time - see
https://wiki1.hbz-nrw.de/display/SEM/2012/08/16/lobid-resources+-+much+more+records%2C+authority+URIs+dereferencable%2C++provenance
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On 24 Aug 2012, at 16:07, Karen Coyle <lists_at_kcoyle.net> wrote:
> Thanks, Graham. That is an excellent post.
>
> The key points in that post are the ones regarding "database" vs. "data." This is a difficult distinction for bibliographic data where one can make use of individual records or individual bits of data. The "database" license makes more sense with things like census data where one will operate on a data set or a portion of a data set, but where transformation of individual bits of data doesn't make much sense. Rarely does one operate on an entire bibliographic database (e.g. drawing statistical measures like the ones in WorldCat identities); instead, the emphasis is on use of individual entries -- some data, but not the database.
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> At the same time, most people want to have some idea of where data comes from -- some way of gauging the "authoritativeness" of the data. This also requires carrying forward something that looks like attribution, and the W3C is calling it "provenance." It may be the case that the desire to get credit and the need to know your sources will be solved with a single addition to the linked data technology.
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> Note also that in some cases linked data carries attribution/provenance natively in its use of URIs, and that OCLC considers this sufficient attribution if no other technique is available. So this:
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> http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46969861
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> satisfies OCLC as a "BY"-type attribution.
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> kc
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> On 8/24/12 7:22 AM, Seaman, Graham wrote:
>> For a differing opinion see http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33768, especially the last paragraph. At least in the UK this opinion (a practical preference for CC0 over CC-BY) seems to be becoming the consensus.
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>> Graham Seaman
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of B.G. Sloan
>> Sent: 23 August 2012 20:31
>> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>> Subject: [NGC4LIB] OCLC recommends Open Data Commons Attribution License
>>
>> From Library Journal:
>> "OCLC is recommending that member institutions that would like to release their catalog data on the Web do so with the Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-BY)."
>> For more details, see: http://bit.ly/MP63Dc
>> Bernie Sloan
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