The other day someone registered two very interesting packages on CKAN: <http://ckan.net/package/ugent_biblio> - tab delimited file of all Ghent University publications <http://ckan.net/package/ugent_catalog> - dump of complete Ghent University library catalog
The second of these is particularly interesting as open bibliographic metadata is hard to come by! On the CKAN pages the packages have been listed as public domain. However, following the provided project url: <http://lib.ugent.be/info/en/exports.shtml> one finds a nice "Open Knowledge" button but also, unfortunately, the statement that: "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Belgium License." Non-commercial licenses are obviously not http://opendefinition.org/ compliant (and a CC license isn't a good idea for data either!). This seems like a good opportunity to do an http://isitopendata.org/ request but before starting on this I wanted to ask: * Does anyone out there had any ideas what was going on here? * Is there anyone with good Belgium (or Library) connections who could make the request (they usually work better from someone in the "scene") Regards, Rufus _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
