What if the data was open-source/creative commons, so anybody could do whatever they wanted with it?
Thought experiment: what would happen if Wikipedia decided tomorrow to start charging for access to their site?
>>> Jason Griffey <Jason-Griffey_at_UTC.EDU> 4/24/2007 6:03 PM >>>
That's a nice thought, kgs, but as we all know...we're already under the thumb of the big O. :-)
The one issue with a national catalog with local instantiations is that, by definition, we would have to be beholden to someone. So unless we want to start a non-profit library consortia that is dedicated to the maintenance of bibliographic data...
...wait a sec...
...oh yeah, that didn't work last time.
Jason
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries on behalf of K.G. Schneider
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Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Spiderable OPACs and the elephant in the library lobby
> |Which has to have an identifier. Or some identifiers. And needs to
> |know its relationship to other bibliographic records (editions,
> |reprintings). ...
> |Hmmm. It sounds so simple, doesn't it?
>
> Sounds like OCLC WorldCat to me...
>
> Harvey
I wonder how many of us are conceptually on board with the concept of a
national catalog, and yet hesitate to endorse this concept (or even argue
for a functional model we realize is not working for us now, if it ever did)
because the only functional model remotely available to us (and not that
remote any more, either) would place us under the control of the Big O.
Karen G. Schneider
kgs_at_bluehighways.com
Received on Wed Apr 25 2007 - 11:03:01 EDT