Sorry, I misrepresented my thoughts earlier.
What I really meant was that this is exactly what we need to do (as
described by both Diane and Jonathan), but we also need to watch out
for the license issues.
--Casey
On Apr 25, 2007, at 5:27 PM, Diane I. Hillmann wrote:
> 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 - 16:16:49 EDT