Jonathan Rochkind schrieb:
> These are great ideas. There are definitely technical solutions to
> these, but they take work. OAI-PMH is one technology from the library
> community for automatically sharing metadata from a central source to
> distributed consumers. It is not in fact a technical challenge to make
> an ILS that does this, as far as that goes. Trickier is figuring out how
> to keep what's local local, while automatically updating what's not. But
> this isn't really a technical challenge, so much as a business/logic
> challenge.
>
> Why isn't OCLC Local doing it? Well, OCLC doesn't have any control over
> your local ILS to make it do this.
>
In Europe, Pica's LBS and SISIS (recently acquired) are doing this and
have figured it all out long ago. Part-whole relationships included.
Who owns these systems? OCLC.
B.Eversberg
Received on Fri Jul 13 2007 - 06:14:44 EDT