Re: Open, public standards v. pay per view standards and usage

From: Ross Singer <rossfsinger_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:07:25 -0400
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Ray Denenberg, Library of
Congress<rden_at_loc.gov> wrote:

> Ross, if you're talking about the ISO 20775 xml schema:
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso20775/ISOholdings_V1.0.xsd
>
> It's free.

It's also not a spec, it's a schema.  If the expectation is that
people are actually going to adopt a standard from merely looking at
an .xsd, my prediction is that this will go nowhere.

I mean, I'm wrong a lot, but I feel pretty good about this reading
from my crystal ball.

-Ross.
Received on Thu Jul 16 2009 - 11:08:07 EDT