Comments on: OCLC’s new Copyright Evidence Registry http://mollykleinman.com/2008/08/26/oclcs-new-copyright-evidence-registry/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:03:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Greg http://mollykleinman.com/2008/08/26/oclcs-new-copyright-evidence-registry/comment-page-1/#comment-988 Greg Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:45:16 +0000 http://mollykleinman.com/?p=64#comment-988 You should check out OpenLibrary (http://openlibrary.org/). It is doing a similar thing and is Open is practically every sense of the word. From their About page: "One web page for every book ever published. It's a lofty, but achievable, goal." Along with that they will have some automatic copyright determination logic along with the ability for the community to improve the accuracy (by providing author birth/death dates, etc). They don't have the copyright status determination code running on the public site just yet, but it isn't far from being released. You should check out OpenLibrary (http://openlibrary.org/). It is doing a similar thing and is Open is practically every sense of the word.

From their About page: “One web page for every book ever published. It’s a lofty, but achievable, goal.” Along with that they will have some automatic copyright determination logic along with the ability for the community to improve the accuracy (by providing author birth/death dates, etc).

They don’t have the copyright status determination code running on the public site just yet, but it isn’t far from being released.

]]>