On 5/30/07, Karen Coyle <kcoyle_at_kcoyle.net> wrote:
> I also think that libraries have already made significant changes in the
> right direction. We have embraced digital resources and given our users
> access to the library from their desktops. We're increasingly using web
> services and are trying very hard to move our catalogs out of the dark
> web. This next change, to open up library data to easier exploitation by
> non-library applications, is a key one and seems only logical.
I agree with this, but to me it looks as if our various business
models in which metadata isn't free is partly to blame for holding us
back quite a lot. How can we go about freeing our metadata (which
often means, killing some business model) because it is the right
thing to do when business is what drives us?
> Beyond
> that we also need to embrace incoming data and resources that differ
> from library standards so that we can be seen as a source of all
> information, not just "library" information.
Accept non-library standards!?!?! That's crazy talk! :)
Alex
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