Smart Libraries Newsletter [October 2012]

OCLC Expands Opportunities for Sharing WorldCat Metadata

Breeding, Marshall.

Copyright (c) 2012 ALA TechSource

SummaryOCLC and Europeana have recently reached an agreement that would allow member libraries to contribute data to the Europeana.eu portal and remain within the WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities guidelines. Under this agreement, OCLC member libraries can contribute metadata derived from WorldCat using the Creative Commons Zero public domain license. Europeana and OCLC would then request that subsequent users of that contributed metadata give attribution to OCLC and the contributing institution.

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Publication Year:2012
Type of Material:Article
LanguageEnglish
Published in: Smart Libraries Newsletter
Publication Info:Volume 32 Number 10
Issue:October 2012
Page(s):5-6
Publisher:ALA TechSource
Place of Publication:Chicago, IL
Show FT:N
Company: OCLC
ISSN:1541-8820
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Record Number:17487
Last Update:2012-12-29 14:06:47
Date Created:2012-12-07 08:56:34