Adrian Pohl wrote:
> I agree that OCLC will have to open up its data and shift its
> revenues in order to be Web2.0-compatible & I hope members will lead to this
> change. Like Bernie Sloan said, catalogs will become unattractive and even
> worthless to the users if the catalog-data can't circulate and yield
> innovative usage. To be part of the web a catalog shouldn't be a walled
> garden or silo but rather integrate other application's data as well as
> provide data for other applications.
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There's another problem with OCLC's focus on protecting it's current
business model, and that's the lack of effort being made in looking at
what libraries will need to make the leap into a world not based on MARC
and the traditional ILS. Not only has OCLC been silent on what it
intends to do about RDA, but without that, how can it figure out what
services its members will need to make the change?
I made a few points about this in a recent column in Technicalities,
available here: http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/11620
Diane Hillmann
Received on Wed Apr 15 2009 - 10:41:56 EDT