The technical problem (with a social component) is who is going to pay
for the server cpu/storage/bandwidth to house a centralized store? A P2P
approach seems like an interesting and appropriate solution to that
problem.
But it should be able to add it as a 'layer' at a later date, as long as
you keep it in mind, it probably isn't neccessary to focus on that level
of technical 'optimization' up front.
Jonathan
MULLEN Allen wrote:
> Just wanted to briefly respond to a brief portion of Tim's last post:
>
>
>> Using peer-to-peer here strikes me as a technical solution to
>> a social and legal problem.
>>
>
> Social problem is solved if libraries participate and what is produced
> has ready value. I'm unaware of a legal problem - creating an
> independent, open-source and freely available authority file based on
> MARC21 for Authority should, by virtue of being based on the
> intellectual content governed by LC, be public domain.
>
> Allen
>
>
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Johns Hopkins University
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Received on Thu May 24 2007 - 11:11:50 EDT