I learned last week that the British-based Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) runs a project with similar goals as OpenLibrary.
It is in an early stage and available under several different domain names. One of them is http://publicdomainworks.net/ One of their library records, http://publicdomainworks.net/work/KVrlzeFaQzCvS7rhhYVN9A/Fribytaren_Pa_Ostersjon--%5BProf%5D%28Abraham%29_Viktor_Rydberg Same title in OL, http://openlibrary.org/b/OL17016106M/Fribytaren_pa%CC%8A_o%CC%88stersjo%CC%88n. Both are begging volunteers to fix the broken data, but they aren't using each other's improvements. (The records are very often totally broken because both projects are run by monolingual English-speakers.) When I heard of this, I tried to ask what's the purpose of yet another parallel project, but I can't say I understood the answer. Tomorrow is OKFN's Open Knowledge Conference. I'm not going there. Apparently, Mathias Schindler of the German chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation is giving a presentation about open bibliographic information, http://www.okfn.org/okcon/programme And apparently, OL's Karen Coyle is on OKFN's working group for bibliographic data, http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/bibliography What are all the connections I don't know about? Does anybody have a plan for where this is going? -- Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
