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I think this DPLA notice covers this release of metadata: John Palfrey [log in to unmask] Apr 24 (1 day ago) to dpla-discussion Dear colleagues interested in the DPLA: Below, please find a news release that we have just issued from Harvard about a major open access metadata release that will benefit our DPLA initiative. The NYT has coverage in its Bits Blog: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/harvard-releases-big-data-for-books/ We at Harvard very much hope that other institutions will join us in open access metadata releases made available through the DPLA's emerging new platform. Much to talk about later this week in San Francisco! Again, thanks for everything you're doing. Best, John -- *Millions of Harvard Library Catalog Records Publicly Available** Harvard releases nearly 100% of its records * April 24, 2012 – The Harvard Library announced it would make 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 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 andopen 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 HarvardLibrary has expressed its appreciation for the great potential that librarymetadata has for innovative uses. The two metadata releases today are primeexamples," said Stuart 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.” Media Contact: Kira Poplowski <[log in to unmask]> Director of Communications The Harvard Library 617.496.3758 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Digital Public Library of America planning initiative listserv. To post to this group, email [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe from this group, visit https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/signoff/dpla-discussion To edit your subscription options, visit https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/suboptions/dpla-discussion A searchable archive of all messages is available at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/arc/dpla-discussion We encourage you to post your ideas and resources to the DPLA public wiki: https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/dpla/Main_Page On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Joseph Montibello < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Thanks for noting this, Will, it was news to me. > > This is nothing like an official statement, but here's an interesting > perspective from someone at OCLC: > > http://bit.ly/hvrdrecOCLC > > Joe Montibello, MLIS > Library Systems Manager > Dartmouth College Library > 603.646.9394 > [log in to unmask] > > > > > > > On 4/24/12 4:43 PM, "Will Kurt" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > >Apologies if this is old news, but I was very excited to see Harvard > >making all this data public: > >http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&pageid=icb.page498373 > > > >Tons of cool data analysis / machine learning work to be done here! > >Warm up your SVMs ;) > > > >--Will > > > -- Matt Amory (917) 771-4157 [log in to unmask] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/matt-amory/8/515/239