So OCLC has privileged Google as someone we have 'permission' to share
records with, over competitors to Google, non-profit efforts doing
similar things, as well as each other. OCLC graciously allows us to
share these records only with Google, giving Google a monopoly on them.
I don't like it.
Jonathan
Peter Murray wrote:
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>> This deal was worked out many months ago. Not sure what impact (if
>> any)
>> the new deal between Google and OCLC would have on our service.
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> Come to think of it, it probably doesn't (emphasis added):
>
> Under terms of the agreement, OCLC member libraries participating in
> the Google Book Search™ program... may share their WorldCat-derived
> MARC records /with Google/ to better facilitate discovery of library
> collections through Google.
> <http://www.oclc.org/us/en/news/releases/200811.htm>
>
> I had conveniently forgotten the "with Google" part of the sentence
> when thinking about what you were making available through the OAI-PMH
> interface.
>
>
> Peter
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Jonathan Rochkind
Digital Services Software Engineer
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886
rochkind (at) jhu.edu
Received on Sat May 24 2008 - 22:14:06 EDT