Re: Spiderable OPACs and the elephant in the library lobby

From: Diane I. Hillmann <dih1_at_nyob>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:27:10 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
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