So why not start with the digital records? Many of those aren't
currently distributed. Gotta start someplace--we can't just look for
reasons why not to do something ...
Diane
>Diane I. Hillmann wrote:
>
>>Why can't we just use OAI to pass them around? Much less overhead,
>>and the aggregators and services can develop on their own once the
>>records are available.
>>
>>We're on the web now, remember? Not the same need for a central body
>>to herd us ... ;-)
Casey Bisson wrote:
>A problem here is license. While many of us are creating some records
>and fixing many more, our catalogs are filled with records derived
>from any number of sources and controlled by a greater number of
>licenses. We can't legally share our records (especially into a copy-
>left collection) if we don't own them/control the license.
Received on Wed Apr 25 2007 - 15:17:19 EDT