Announcement
From the announcement:
Workshop title: Open Bibliographic Data: Licensing. Activities. Strategies
Audience: Everybody interested in Open Knowledge and/or working with large amounts of library and journal article data
Short Description: Open Data is an integral part of Linked Open Data[1] and thus the same priority should be attached to licensing data as to producing Linked Data. The first part of this workshop focusses on legal questions concerning open bibliographic data (be it library catalog data or journal article data): What is open data? Are there intellectual property rights associated with library data and - if so - which? How does data - legally - differ from software and content? Which licenses are appropriate for (open) data?[2]
In the second part activities in the realm of open bibliographic data in general and specifically open library data are highlighted. Several libraries and related instituitions - especially in Europe - by now have already opened up (part of) their data.[3] Also, librarians, developers and scientists are promoting Open Bibliographic Data in a working group within the Open Knowledge Foundation[4] and have released Principles on Open Bibliographic Data[5] in January.
Questions to be adressed include: What are their motivations? What happens to this data? Where can I find open data sets?
In the end, the workshop participants discuss strategies for broadening an open data practice. Questions like “How do I persuade decision makers to open up data?” are discussed to foster a future where bibliographic data is openly available for unrestricted use by libraries, scholars and the wider public.
Workshop Outcomes: Participants have a basic understanding of the legal questions and related problems regarding open licensing of bibliographic data.
Participants can orient themselves in the existent open bibliographic data community and know strategies for fostering open bibliographic data.
Footnotes
[1] http://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/2010/star-scheme-by-example/
[2] The workshop leader is no lawyer and national IP laws differ and many legal questions were never treated by a court. Thus, this workshop can only give some basic orientation but no definite answers.
[3] http://ckan.net/group/bibliographic
[4] http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/bibliography
[5] http://openbiblio.net/principles/
Other Resources
- JISC Open Bibliographic Data Guide: http://obd.jisc.ac.uk/
- Flyer on Open Library Data: http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/bibliography/OpenBibliographicDataFlyer
Registrants
Name |
Institution |
Country |
|
---|---|---|---|
Mr. Adrian Pohl (leader) |
pohl@hbz-nrw.de |
hbz |
Germany |
Mr. Patrick Danowski |
patrick.danowski@ist.ac.at |
IST Austria |
Austria |
Ms. Marja Haapalainen |
marja.haapalainen@kb.se |
National Library of Sweden |
Sweden |
Ms. Laila Heinemann |
laila.heinemann@helsinki.fi |
National Library of Finland |
Finland |
Ms. Nina Hyvönen |
nina.hyvonen@helsinki.fi |
National Library of Finland |
Finland |
Ms. Åsa Jenslin |
asa.jenslin@ki.se |
Karolinska Institutet University Library |
Sweden |
Mr. Petr Žabička |
zabak@mzk.cz |
Moravian Library |
Czech Republic |
Etherpad for collaborative writing and documenting: http://okfnpad.org/elag-openbiblio-workshop
Brief instruction to opening your data in seven steps
- Make sure you got the IP rights on the whole database.
- Check if contracts with data providers prevent you from publishing copy-catalogued records.
- Export the data from the database software (excluding records whose re-use is restricted by contract.
- Publish the data on a webserver. (Example)
- Describe the data and attach a license to it. (Example)
- Create a CKAN-entry. (See the entries in the CKAN group on bibliographic data.)
- Tell the world (via Twitter etc.) using the hashtag #openbiblio.
Slides
- Workshop report/summary slides
- Open Data: Licensing
- Open Data vs. Linked Data - A differentiation
- Open Bibliographic Data and Libraries
- The OKFN & its Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data
References & Resources
A list of basic relevant resources regarding open bibliographic data:
- Principles on Open Bibliographic Data (based on the Open Knowledge Definition)
- Open Bibliographic Data Guide
- CKAN group listing bibliographic datasets
- Blog of the OKFN Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data
- Mailing list of the OKFN Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data
- Developer's mailing list (bibliographica and more)
- A list of projects in the realm of openbiblio data (not) maintained by Adrian
- isitopendata.org, a service to publicly ask data provicers about the data licensing status (See this blog post for a How To.)