There are many such CC0 national bibliographies available, and other large datasets, if the decision is made to import them.
See here for a list: http://datahub.io/group/bibliographic Here is a direct link to the British National Bibliography page: http://bnb.bl.uk/ For further information on the open bibliographic project and the principles of open bibliographic metadata, check here: http://openbiblio.net http://openbiblio.net/principles Mark MacGillivray On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 1:51 PM, David Cuenca <dacu...@gmail.com> wrote: > No, we don't need to import them all, but there was always the question if > we were allowed to import that data from external sources. > At least for the DNB that question has been settled. > > Cheers, > Micru > > > > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andre...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> This seems very interesting: maybe, there will be a time when Wikidata >> (or similar) will host the bibliographic records >> of thousands of libraries... >> >> Right now, I'm not sure if we want to discuss a massive upload of these >> records in WD, >> because: >> * they are in MARC, which is way more complex than the list of >> bibliographic properties currently in WD >> * they will be in German >> * do we really need so many records of books, articles and work, at this >> early stage? >> >> Aubrey >> >> >> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 2:32 PM, David Cuenca <dacu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Maybe this is interesting as an import source for bibliographic info >>> >>> http://blogs.ifla.org/bibliography/2013/08/06/german-national-library-offers-over-11-million-marc21-records-under-cc0-open-license/ >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Micru >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikisource-l mailing list >>> wikisourc...@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikisource-l mailing list >> wikisourc...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >> >> > > > -- > Etiamsi omnes, ego non > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > >
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