Library management systems provider Talis, UK, has announced a partnership with LibLime, a leading provider of open solutions for libraries. Under the deal, over five million bibliographic records will now be made available to the library community on LibLime's ‡biblios.net platform.
The ‡biblios.net is a free browser-based cataloguing service with a data store containing over thirty-million records. The database is maintained by ‡biblios.net and uses a similar model to Wikipedia. Cataloguers can use and contribute to the database without restrictions because the records are freely-licensed under the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (http://biblios.net/pddl).
Talis is providing data from the Talis Union Catalogue, the open shared core of records from the Talis Base service, to ‡biblios.net. This includes over 5 million bibliographic records, catalogued by public and academic libraries in the UK over the last 30 years. The Talis Union Catalogue further complements the existing ‡biblios.net database. The sharing principles of Talis Base, established over the years, are now being supplemented by reciprocal sharing with other open sources such as ‡biblios.net.
