On 5 April 2012 00:57, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Ben Companjen <[email protected]> wrote: >> It appears that VIAF is transitioning to being an OCLC service. >> "The new Agreement confirms the free re-use of VIAF data, including >> the commercial re-use of data according to the ODC-By license." says >> Bruno Racine, President, National Library of France. >> >> The news announcement: http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201224.htm > > Beat me to it! I was just looking for this thread to post an update to. > I had wondered if I was really the first to notice ;)
> Two things of note: > - the web site hasn't been updated with the new license yet > - I haven't seen anything on ODC-By *who* ie is it each VIAF data > contributor? OCLC (ick!)? Some VIAF pseudo-entity? > > From OpenLibrary's point of view though, it doesn't make too much > difference since ODB-By is too restrictive to mix with CC0. So close, > yet so far... But what if Open Library, we, use(s) a web service to (try to) find out the VIAF ID of people and not copy names and other information from VIAF? It can't hurt to ask whether they're okay with that, but I think it should be. > > Tom Ben > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
