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My question has to do with discoverability. Let's say that I have a bibliographic database and I want to add the OCLC work identifiers to it. Obviously I don't want to do it by hand. I might have ISBNs, but in some cases I will have a regular author/title-type citation. and let's say that I am asking this for two different institutions: a) is an OCLC member institution b) is not Thanks, kc On 4/30/14, 8:47 AM, Dan Scott wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Roy Tennant <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> This has now instead become a reasonable recommendation >>> concerning ODC-BY licensing [3] but the confusion and uncertainty >>> about which records an OCLC member may redistribute remains. >>> >>> [3] http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201248.en.html >> Allow me to try to put this confusion and uncertainty to rest once and for >> all: >> >> ALL THE THINGS. ALL. >> >> At least as far as we are concerned. I think it's well past time to put the >> past in the past. > That's great, Roy. That's a *lot* simpler than parsing the > recommendations, WCRR, community norms, and such at [A, B] :) > >> Meanwhile, we have just put nearly 200 million works records up as linked >> open data. [1], [2], [3]. If that doesn't rock the library open linked data >> world, then no one is paying attention. >> Roy >> >> [1] http://oclc.org/en-US/news/releases/2014/201414dublin.html >> [2] >> http://dataliberate.com/2014/04/worldcat-works-197-million-nuggets-of-linked-data/ >> [3] http://hangingtogether.org/?p=3811 > Yes, that is really awesome. But Laura was asking about barriers to > open metadata, so damn you for going off-topic with PR around a lack > of barriers to some metadata (which, for those who have not looked > yet, have a nice ODC-BY licensing statement at the bottom of a given > Works page) :) > > A. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use.en.html > B. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use/data-licensing/questions.en.html -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet