{"id":2261,"date":"2008-03-07T12:47:07","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T17:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=514"},"modified":"2008-03-07T12:47:07","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T17:47:07","slug":"open-bibliographic-data-the-state-of-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/07\/open-bibliographic-data-the-state-of-play.html","title":{"rendered":"Open Bibliographic Data : The State of Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.okfn.org\/2008\/03\/06\/open-bibliographic-data-the-state-of-play\/\">Open Bibliographic Data : The State of Play<\/a><\/strong> is a post by Rufus Pollock at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.okfn.org\/\">Open Knowledge Foundation<\/a> which examines a variety of sources for cataloging and database information.\u00a0 He makes the observation, which I think is on target, that when it comes to bibliographic data<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You might even think, given the public-spiritedness of librarians, that this is the kind of area where not only <em>could<\/em> it be openly available but it <em>would<\/em> be openly available&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a movement out there working to create an open repository.\u00a0 It would make everyone&#8217;s job easier, especially if this repository could incorporate some type of authority checking by the users.\u00a0 Imagine leveraging the same type of error checking that Wikipedia uses, but on our catalog information.<\/p>\n<p>One can dream&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlham.edu\/~peters\/fos\/2008\/03\/state-of-open-bibliographic-data.html\">Open Access News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Bibliographic Data : The State of Play is a post by Rufus Pollock at the Open Knowledge Foundation which examines a variety of sources for cataloging and database information.\u00a0 He makes the observation, which I think is on target, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/07\/open-bibliographic-data-the-state-of-play.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2920,2922,2925,2943,2951,2954],"tags":[3522,4696,3543],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-cataloging","category-copyright","category-libraries","category-online-databases","category-open-access","tag-open-knowledge-foundation","tag-play-open","tag-rufus-pollock"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-At","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}