At 07:35 PM 9/8/2011 +0200, Thomas Krichel wrote:
On behalf of the Open Bibilographic Working Group of the Open Knowledge Foundation, I would like to bring your attention to the Principles on Open Bibliographic data at http://openbiblio.net/principles/ The group continues to offer the opportunity, for both individuals and groups, to sign up to the principles.
With respect, what is this? I have asked our biblio specialists, and they've not [yet] heard of your project. One of them took a quick look and told me that apart from it being a CC0 "creative commons zero" (i.e. disregard copyright) project, it's orientated towards URLs -- not MARC except incidentally. You want to "bring [our] attention" to your project, my librarians ask "Does this break what we're doing?" Paul Tired old sys-admin