Great Initiative! Well done Harvard Library! On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Cable Green <ca...@creativecommons.org>wrote:
> Good news this Tuesday morning ;) > > > Cable Green, PhD > Director of Global Learning > Creative Commons > http://creativecommons.org/education > http://twitter.com/cgreen > > > ------------------ > > *Harvard Library Makes Millions of Records Publicly Available* > *Harvard Library Releases Nearly 100% of Its Records > > (See New York > Times<http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/harvard-releases-big-data-for-books/>coverage > here.) > * > > April 24, 2012 – The Harvard Library announced it is making more than 12 > million catalog records from Harvard’s 73 libraries publicly > available<http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/> > . > > The records contain bibliographic information about books, videos, audio > recordings, images, manuscripts, maps, and more. The Harvard Library is > making these records available in accordance with its Open Metadata > Policy<http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/>and under a Creative > Commons 0 <http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0> (CC0) public domain > license. In addition, the Harvard Library announced its open distribution > of metadata from its Digital Access to Scholarship at > Harvard<http://dash.harvard.edu/>(DASH) scholarly article repository under a > similar CC0 license. > > "The Harvard Library is committed to collaboration and open access. We > hope this contribution is one of many steps toward sharing the vital > cultural knowledge held by libraries with all," said Mary Lee Kennedy, > Senior Associate Provost for the Harvard Library. > > The catalog records are available for bulk download from Harvard, and are > available for programmatic access by software applications via API's at the > Digital > Public Library of America <http://dp.la/> (DPLA). The records are in the > standard MARC21 format. > > "By instituting a policy of open metadata, the Harvard Library has > expressed its appreciation for the great potential that library metadata > has for innovative uses. The two metadata releases today are prime > examples," said Stuart Shieber<http://www.seas.harvard.edu/directory/shieber>, > Library Board Member, Director of the Office for Scholarly Communication > and Professor of Computer Science at Harvard. > > John Palfrey, Chair of the DPLA, said, "With this major contribution, > developers will be able to start experimenting with building innovative > applications that put to use the vital national resource that consists of > our local public and research libraries, museums, archives and cultural > collections." He added that he hoped that this would encourage other > institutions to make their own collection metadata publicly > available<http://dp.la/dev/wiki/Metadata_upload> > . > > The records consist of information describing works—including creator, > title, publisher, date, language, and subject headings—as well as other > descriptors usually invisible to end users, such as the equalization system > used in a recording. Harvard’s Kennedy noted, "The accessibility of the > entire set of data for each item will, we hope, spur imaginative uses that > will find new value in what libraries know.”**** > > ** ** > > Kira Poplowski**** > > Director of Communications**** > > The Harvard Library**** > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
