I agree with Stuart. And this issue is particularly timely in light of
yesterday's International Discovery Summary organised by the Jisc - see
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2013/02/discovery2013.aspx
In the opening plenary talk Maura Marx, Secretariat Director, Digital
Public Library of America spoke about exploitation of metadata which was
unencumbered by copyright restrictions. Although comments on the
Twitter channel suggested that this wasn't applicable in EU countries,
there was a view that use of licences such as CC0 would be appropriate
to encourage metadata to be used by anyone, including commercial
companies who may wish to exploit metadata for commercial purposes.
The use of non-discriminatory open approaches is not new - for example
there are parallels with open source software and standards (e.g. Tim
Berners-Lee ensured the Web was based on open standards which allowed
Web services to be developed by anyone). But perhaps the implications
of non-discriminatory open approaches in a library context do need to be
discussed more widely.
Brian Kelly, UKOLN
On 22/02/2013 00:00, JISC-REPOSITORIES automatic digest system wrote:
> On 21/02/2013 02:49, "Paul Royster" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Let me get this right: We furnish free metadata to ExLibris and they
>> package it into a proprietary system for leasing to libraries?
>>
>> Paul Royster
>> Scholarly Communications, UNL Libraries
>
> Yes, that's right!
>
> Or, to phrase it differently, for zero cost, Ex Libris will expose your
> scholarly content to hundreds of thousands of academic readers directly
> through their local academic library discovery system!
>
> What's not to like? That's why we build systems like OAI-PMH and other
> discovery / harvest mechanisms into our repositories so that we can
> furnish free metadata to all. Discovery and re-use is good, be that via
> commercial or free routes!
>
>
> Stuart Lewis
> Head of Digital Library Services
> Library & Collections, Information Services
> University of Edinburgh
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