Quoting Jakob Voss <jakob.voss_at_GBV.DE>:
> I bet there are several reasons why OpenURL failed in some way but I
> think one reason is that SFX got sold to Ex Libris. Afterwards there
> was no interest of Ex Libris to get a simple clean standard and most
> libraries ended up in buying a black box with an OpenURL label on it -
> instead of developing they own systems based on a common standard. I
> bet you can track most bad library standards to commercial vendors. I
> don't trust any standard without open specification and a reusable Open
> Source reference implementation.
For what it's worth, that does not coincide with my experience.
kc
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Received on Mon May 03 2010 - 18:35:50 EDT