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SUMMARY:Taking a Walk on the Wild(e) Side: Opening Up Library Data - Dr Ru
 fus Pollock\, Mead Fellow in Economics at Emmanuel College and one of the 
 founders of the Open Knowledge Foundation
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CONTACT:Pete Girling
DESCRIPTION:Over the past few years\, open licensing (http://opendefinitio
 n.org/)\nhas facilitated the explosive growth of a 'knowledge commons'. To
  give a few prominent examples: Open Access journals\, Open Educational Re
 sources and Open Data in scientific research have all been enabled\nby lic
 enses which permit material to be freely re-used and re-distributed. This 
 outpouring of support for openness has led to an incredible rise in commun
 ity-led development and innovative uses.\n\nBibliographic records are a ke
 y part of our shared cultural heritage and essential to anyone working wit
 h cultural materials (books\, music\, films etc). Opening up those records
  for access and re-use offers a variety of benefits.\n\nFirst\, it would a
 llow libraries to share records more efficiently and improve quality more 
 rapidly through better\, easier feedback. Second\, easier access to catalo
 gue data would spur development of the\nmultifarious services\, technologi
 es and research that use that data\, including\, for example\, search engi
 nes\, book or music websites\, researchers working on information producti
 on\, journalists writing on\norphan works\, as well as many other areas we
  cannot even imagine in advance.\n\nWith a growing number of Government ag
 encies and public institutions making data open\, is is now time for the l
 ibrary community to do likewise?\n
LOCATION:Morison Room\, University Library
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