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

[emijrp]

Very good news for Open Library, and for us too.

2012/4/24 Samuel Klein <sj at wikimedia.org>

> 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.
>
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