Significant vote from European National Librarians
Richard Wallis
"….it will mean that vast quantities of trustworthy data are available for Linked Open Data developments"
Paul Keller
> Something that could be significant in the furtherance of the LOD-LAM cause in European National Libraries seemed to go mostly unnoticed last week was a vote in Copenhagen to support the open licensing of their data.
>
> "….it will mean that vast quantities of trustworthy data are available for Linked Open Data developments"
this development actually goes further than just the European National Libraries realm. On 22 november the EDL foundation (that this the foundation running Europeana) has approved the new Europeana Data Exchange Agreement (DEA) which requires that Europeana's data providers authorize Europeana to republish all the metadata that they provide to Europeana under CC0. There is a bit of a transition period from the current - much more restrictive - agreements to the new DEA but Europeana expects that they will be able to publish all their metadata under CC0 by june of next year.
The EDF's announcement has started to trigger announcements by other organizations that they will adopt the DEA (the CENL statement mentioned by Richard is one of them, but there have been other for example by the EUscreen consortium. We hope and expect to see more announcements of this type in the coming weeks… best/paul
> Dear partners
>
> Good news for the supporters of Open Data this week came with the
> announcement that the Conference of European National Librarians [CENL]
> was adopting CC0 licensing for their data. This was closely followed by
> the news that EUscreen, representing Europe's major broadcasting
> archives, was signing the Europeana Data Exchange Agreement and taking
> forward its own Linked Open Data plans.
>
> This comes right after the Europeana Foundation's endorsement last week
> of Europeana's Data Exchange Agreement. The Foundation comprises the
> leading figures from Europe's museums, libraries, archives and
> audiovisual associations. It is committed to fulfilling the public
> mandate of Europe's cultural heritage institutions in supporting social
> and economic development through opening up public sector information .
> However, the Foundation recognises the concerns and constraints under
> which different parts of the cultural heritage network need to operate,
> and is consulting widely on the appropriate ways in which each domain is
> able to participate in data-led initatives. =20
>
> The CENL and EUscreen press releases are both attached. This is a
> significant step forward and we urge you to circulate these to your
> networks, translate them for your national heritage communities and
> engage the media in your countries with this important story.
>
> Regards,
>
> The Europeana Team
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