[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Harvard Library releases 12M bibliographic records under CC0

[Samuel Klein]

This is big news -- though still only part of Harvard's full
collection of records.

Following the British Library's release of 3M bib records under CC0 18
months ago:
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&pageid=icb.page498373

David Weinberger writes:

> This is the largest contribution of full bib records we know of.
>
> Stuart Shieber [of the Berkman Center] (and of the Office of Scholarly
> Communication) was the driving force behind this.
>
> Woohoo!
>
> David W.