Help with the legal issues in reusing bibliographic records

This has been available for a little while but it is a really useful resource for libraries so I thought I’d be able give it another push via this blog.

Curtis and Cartwright and Naomi Korn Copyright Consultancy undertook a study for JISC to explore legal implications for UK university libraries of providing their catalogue records for re-use in Web applications and, in the light of these, provide practical legal guidance to libraries interested in doing this.

The study produced a really interesting resource that JISC Legal are hosting. The resource is a useful guide for anyone interested in this area but its primary focus is on guiding libraries through the process of preparing to reuse their bibliographic records in web applications.This is timely as libraries are beginning to experiment with providing open bibliographic metadata and a good understanding of IPR in the bibliographic data will be important for libraries considering joining in with these experiments. Karen Coyle wrote a good summary of the work that some libraries are doing with open bibliographic metadata on the Open Content Alliance blog.

We expect this resource to be used and built on in the work that will result from the upcoming vision from the JISC and RLUK Resource Discovery Taskforce. You can learn more about the taskforce on the RDTF blog and there will be a session on it at the JISC conference.

March 19, 2010 | Filed Under libraries, metadata | Author Andy McGregor 

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