Hi Alex, Neville - Yes, linking into Wikipedia is encouraged! There's a bigger project in the wings here too, about connecting our author records with Wikipedia "people" en masse. Also, as Patrick linked to in a following email, we've experimented with a Bot for Wikipedia, that writes a link from Wikipedia authors' pages into Open Library where we have something that people can read by that author. Any ideas for programmatic interconnection between the 2 systems are welcome!
On 6/29/11 3:46 AM, Alex Stinson wrote: > There is not problem in using the Lead or some other part of a Wikipedia > article > in the OL entry. However remember that Wikipedia is released under a CC-BY-SA > licenses so if you do use the Wikipedia content make sure that you leave > attribution at the end of the quoted material. This can be as simple as a > comment like "From the Wikipedia article on OBJECTNAME" where the object name > has a link to the article that you used. Another option, is that you could > list > the name of all the contributors to that specific page. > > Speaking of licensing, http://openlibrary.org/developers/licensing is > very ambiguous. Could we get a little more clarification that open in the > context of OL means? I am assuming it means that Open Library holds no > copyright > claim over the object records in OL and that they encourage reuse, per the > definition of open at http://okfn.org/about/ . Am I interpreting wrong? Could > we > label the records themselves under a CC-BY-SA or similar license to clarify > this? I realize that many of the images and actual ebooks fall under other > licenses, but the database of information ought to have a clear and specific > open license on it. You can't facilitate reuse if people don't know the > position > of the organization on it's use. We ask that any contribution to Open Library be made under CC0, but because our records come from all over the place, we don't claim any sort of ownership. Cheers, george _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
