I got this letter this morning. When no infrastructure exists
there can be no free flow of metadata and resources.
What shall answer my Czech collegue? Maybe the answer
is WorldCat? Sweden will join and maybe the Czech Republic
will also and then we somehow could exchange records and
resources in the grand scale. I don't know. Maybe my collegue
will get some help from the people working with our national
catalogue, LIBRIS. I hope it will be possible to export the
more than 28.000 titles to my collegue. It should in the best
of world. But the obstacles are enormous at the borders.
We have a long way to free trade!
Jan
Dear Jan,
Do you make your collection metadata available
for download? Do you have somewhere official
words about the project in English?
I am not sure if http://www.ub.gu.se/Gdig or
http://www.ub.gu.se/info/projekt/paperfinalrev.pdf
is the right place where to start reading.
Thanks for guiding me.
We are very interested in cooperation and have
some hundreds (now maybe almost one of thousand)
freely available Czech materials, also picked up
carefully and checked regularly.
Alexander Johannesen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 18:21, Jan Szczepanski <jan.szczepanski_at_ub.gu.se> wrote:
>
>> We can't just rely on the Google machine
>>
>
> Why?
>
>
>> But the point is that no
>> library is interested in collecting free e-books.
>>
>
> Why not?
>
>
> Alex
>
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och inte ett uttryck för Göteborgs universitets-
biblioteks hållning
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those of the Gothenburg University Library
Jan Szczepanski
Förste bibliotekarie
Goteborgs universitetsbibliotek
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Received on Mon Mar 02 2009 - 03:08:46 EST