On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Rob Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Not satisfied with controlling the world's largest source of book > information, it wants to take over all the smaller ones as well. It's > now demanding that every library that uses WorldCat give the copyright > to all its catalog records to OCLC. It literally is asking libraries > to put an OCLC copyright notice on every book record in their catalog. > It wants to own every library." > > http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/oclcscam
Thanks for posting this Rob. This is a major deal, though to be expected: in chatting with libraries over the last couple of years about whether they catalogue data could be made more openly available a frequent response has been that OCLC may well already 'own' part of it so it wouldn't be up to them ... An early look at the new OCLC terms from a librarian's point of view can be found at: <http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/blog/archives/574> <http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/blog/archives/582> (revised versions) An irony here is that the new WorldCat terms don't seem much worse than the old ones -- at least from an openness point of view. Earlier discussion of open biblio data is on: <http://blog.okfn.org/2008/03/06/open-bibliographic-data-the-state-of-play/> There's also a CKAN page for OCLC which details its (current) policy/license (and why it's not open): <http://www.ckan.net/package/read/oclc> Regards, Rufus PS: if anyone is interested we're still working to get open catalogue data on sound recordings and put it up online. In particular we have got a load of data from BBC archives that we need help with parsing ... _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
