Technology and Support Services Division
Cataloging and Metadata Department

Creative Commons CC0

Beginning March 2011, the University of Florida Smathers Libraries implemented a policy to include the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication in all of its original cataloging records. The records are considered public domain with unrestricted downstream use for any purpose.

The following MARC 588 field (Source of Description Note) is added to new records contributed to WorldCat. It has not been added retrospectively to University of Florida original records in WorldCat.

588::|a This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication. The University of Florida Libraries, as creator of this bibliographic record, has waived all rights to it worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law.

Click below for a MARC file of University of Florida original records available for use under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication:

UF-CC0-2013-05.zip - 17,708 records, 7.32 MB

The University of Florida OPAC (a Solr/Lucene search engine) is configured to display a Creative Commons CC0 statement based on the presence of a University of Florida OCLC symbol in the MARC 040 field |a. The specified 040 |a is mapped to the originalcataloger_text field in the Solr/Lucene record if it exists in incoming records. This allows the statement to be displayed in the OPAC for original records retrospectively, i.e., records without the 588 field, and appear in RSS feeds.

This bibliographic record is available under the

Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication.

The University of Florida Libraries has waived all rights to this bibliographic record worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law.

Examples from the OPAC:

Classical Latin Texts database records

Classical Latin Texts database (Packard Humanities Institute)--Click below for a MARC file of University of Florida original records for texts in the database, available for use under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication (a subset of the full file of University of Florida original records referenced above):

Classical-Latin-Texts-records.zip - 605 records, 140 KB

Technology and Support Services Division Cataloging and Metadata Department

Technology and Support Services Division
Cataloging and Metadata Department