On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:29:01 +0200, Martin Malmsten <Martin.Malmsten_at_KB.SE>
wrote:
>I am simply going to throw down the gauntlet and say that search/
>retrieve access to library data is not good enough. For too long have
>library data been trapped within data-silos only accessible through
>obscure protocols. Why is access to library data still an issue? This
>was solved in a matter of months on the web, when Excite (or whichever
>search engine was first) was introduced. Why are there not at least
>ten search engines containing the majority of the worlds bibliographic
>data?
Hear, hear. One of the important reasons why the web ecosystem has worked so
far is because it is self-describing [1]. A web crawler (google, excite,
yahoo, etc) can automatically explore and process the contents of the web.
What if we could access library bibliographic and authority data in the same
way? :-)
//Ed
[1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/selfDescribingDocuments
Received on Fri Aug 22 2008 - 10:58:02 EDT