On Dec 8, 2011, at 1:07 AM, Tom Morris wrote: > If you look at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31061.rdf, all it > contains is the author, the title, and a statement that the work is > "public domain" -- no copyright dates, publication dates, etc, so > there's no automated way to tell that it's this edition > http://openlibrary.org/books/OL14801590M/A_history_of_mathematics. > that PG transcribed. You'd also need to figure out which of the works > to connect to > http://openlibrary.org/search?q=a+history+of+mathematics&author_key=OL316652A
This example is not representative, as there are only few LaTeX/PDF only books in PG. Most have an HTML version, unfortunately without meta header. Many however state the publishing date of the book below the title. So, I agree this will be difficult for a robot. > An additional complication is that, rather ironically, Project > Gutenberg is claiming copyright on the bibliographic data they do have > and only license it under GPL which isn't compatible with > OpenLibrary's licensing. I have a hard time seeing them winning the > argument that a book's title and author are copyrightable facts, but > stranger things have happened. The best summary on compilation copyrights I found was http://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/database.html > I think it'd be great to see this happen, but I suspect it'll be a > non-trivial task. Which could be made more motivating by placing Gutenberg links on par with Internet Archive, i.e. automatic creation of "Read online" buttons etc. Ralf Stephan http://www.ark.in-berlin.de ...."C'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." -Louis Pasteur _______________________________________________ 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]
