On 04/12/09 16:55, Jonathan Gray wrote: > > My guess would be the same as Rufus's - I'm not aware of anything > explicitly open, but would love to hear if you find anything.
I'll see what I can add. > Some thoughts about leads: > > * Possibility of compiling this kind of information from public > domain (i.e. old, out of copyright) sources? Especially > bibliographies, catalogues, encylocpedias and so forth. I would expect > that there must be *plenty* of useful information out there - albeit > in a non-structured, non-machine readable form. Possibility of using > OCR to get 50% of way there (especially if publications use standard > formatting/typesetting) and crowdsourcing remaining 50% putting > everything under a nice explicit open license. ;-) Yes that sounds good. It's a shame I'm not in academia as that might be a good project for a university. > * Looking to cultural heritage institutions in the US - especially > government affiliated ones. Then could look to see if any of them > could potentially be classed as Federal (like Library of Congress) and > take the 'Federal government material in the public domain' route. > Also possibility of doing FOI requests, even potentially on public > sector organisations in the UK (e.g. via What Do They Know). Some work has been done on APIs at US institutions. There's the V&A API in the UK, but as ever it's noncommercial - http://collections.vam.ac.uk/information/information_apiterms - Rob.
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