Examples
The following are just some of the ‘real world’ examples of data releases and service developments that illustrate the Use Cases detailed in the Guide to open bibliographic Data.
| Use case | Example | Example URL |
|---|---|---|
| 01. Publish data for unspecified use | The Open Library is a project attempting to establish a web page for every book ever published. Data is offered via the web interface, via an API and by direct download of entire catalogue. It should be noted that although described as ‘open’ there is no specific license applied, and the status of the data is very unclear | http://openlibrary.org |
| 01. Publish data for unspecified use | CERN has released all of its library catalogue records under a Public Domain Dedication License and CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) License | http://ckan.net/package/cern-library-bibliographic-data |
| 01. Publish data for unspecified use | The University and City Libraries of Cologne (Köln) have released their library catalogue records under a CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) License | http://ckan.net/package/usbkoeln-library-data |
| 01. Publish data for unspecified use | The University of Ghent has released its library catalogue records under a Open Data Commons Open Database License | http://ckan.net/package/ugent_catalog |
| 01. Publish data for unspecified use | Cambridge University Library has made a set of bibliographic data under an open license (ODC PDDL) | http://openbiblio.net/2010/10/05/jisc-openbibliography-cul-data-release/ |
| 02. Publish open Linked Data for unspecified use | Libris, the joint catalogue of the Swedish academic and research libraries | http://libris.kb.se/ |
| 02. Publish open Linked Data for unspecified use | The National Széchényi Library catalogue | http://nektar1.oszk.hu/librivision_eng.html |
| 02. Publish open Linked Data for unspecified use | Freebase is an open, Creative Commons licensed repository of structured data of more than 12 million entities. It contains information on 1.3 million book editions, derived from Stanford University Library bibliographic data. All information in Freebase is made available under a CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution) License. | http://www.freebase.com/view/book |
| 02. Publish open Linked Data for unspecified use | North Rhine-Westphalia Union Catalogue (HBZ) has released an Open Linked Data version of the Union Catalogue under a CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) License. | https://wiki1.hbz-nrw.de/display/SEM/2010/08/31/Linked-Open-hbz-Data |
| 04. Allow Physical Union Catalogue to publish data | Where permission has been given the catalogues of the contributing libraries to the North Rhine-Westphalia Union Catalogue (HBZ) are made available as downloadable records by HBZ, under a CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) License. Libraries include:
| http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data/english_version/ |
| 06. Publish grey literature data | School of Electronics and Computer Science at University of Southampton make the metadata in their Eprints repository available as Open Linked Data under a CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) License. | http://www.eprints.org/tech.php/12485.html |
| 06. Publish grey literature data | University of Ghent offer the contents of their Institutional Bibliography (via their repository) as both Open Linked data online and for download under a Open Data Commons Open Database License | http://ckan.net/package/ugent_biblio |
| 08. Publish activity data | University of Huddersfield publish anonymised ‘activity data’ under a CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) License. This was used in the MOSAIC project by several demonstrators. | http://library.hud.ac.uk/data/usagedata/_readme.html |
| 11. Share data for Collaborative Cataloguing | Biblios.net is a collaborative cataloguing service which offers all records under a Public Domain Dedication License. Libraries can add, update and download records from the site freely. Biblios.net includes data that has already been published as Open Bibliographic Data | http://biblios.net |
| 12. Supply data for Crowd Sourced Cataloguing | All contributions by libraries to Open Library and Biblios.net fall under this Use Case. | http://biblios.net http://openlibrary.org |
| 13. Supply data to be enhanced for own use | LibraryThing offer a ‘Cover’ service, the ‘ThingISBN’ lookup (find equivalent editions via ISBN) and a ‘Common Knowledge’ service that exemplify this use case. However the ‘Covers’ are offered under a ‘fair use’ argument, and so are not specifically openly licensed. The ‘ThingISBN’ service is offered under a ‘non-commerical’ licence. The ‘Common Knowledge’ is offered under a Common Knowledge Licence, which is equivalent to a CC-BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike) licence, with the specification that the acknowledgement must include a link back to LibraryThing where ever possible. | http://www.librarything.com/services/ |
| 13. Supply data to be enhanced for own use | The Open Library is used commonly to provide cover images in catalogues. As stated above, the licensing around Open Library is unclear. | http://openlibrary.org/developers/api |
| 14. Publish data for LIS research | The British Library offer a subset of the British National Bibliography for ‘research purposes’. Records are offered under a CC-BY-NC-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) License | http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/data.html |
| 16. Publish data for lightweight application development | Book Galaxy was the winner of the MOSAIC developer competition, which challenged developers to build applications using the MOSAIC data - essentially the University of Huddersfield data. Book Galaxy offers a graphical way of browsing a book collection | http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ajp3g08/mosaicbookgalaxy/ |
| 16. Publish data for lightweight application development | Warwickshire Libraries: New Releases was the winner of the Hack Warwickshire competition run by Warwickshire County Council. The competition challenged developers to build applications using a number of council owned data sets published under a CC-SA (Creative Commons Share-alike) licence, including an RSS feed of new books in Warwickshire libraries | http://www.lewiswagner.me/project/library-hack/ |
