Re: OCLC's proposed policy on record use - my two cents worth

Does anyone know exactly *how* OCLC proposes to identify a record as
'belonging' to them, in order to keep control of the data and prevent
'unauthorized' use of it?

Thanks,
Deborah

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Deborah Fritz
MARC Database Consultant
The MARC of Quality
www.marcofquality.com
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> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of B.G. Sloan
> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 2:33 PM
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [NGC4LIB] OCLC's proposed policy on record use - my 
> two cents worth
> 
> Since I no longer work for an organization that processes 
> OCLC records, the institutional contractual implications of 
> the proposed policy don't concern me as much as they might 
> have in the past. For example, back in the late 1980s I had 
> several skirmishes with OCLC regarding record use in a 
> consortial online union catalog.
> 
> Personally, I see this proposed new policy as OCLC's attempt 
> to keep a lid on innovation, to prevent innovative library 
> and non-library Web 2.0 developers from making creative use 
> of library metadata. I think OCLC feels a little threatened 
> by what's going on in this age of open systems and they are 
> scrambling to make sure they don't lose "control" over "their" data. 
> 
> If you look at the proposed policy from this perspective it 
> makes perfect sense...for OCLC. But does it make sense for 
> the library community? Library systems are in danger of being 
> further marginalized in the information society if their 
> metadata are locked down even tighter in library-only silos. 
> If libraries want to play a bigger role on the web they need 
> to fundamentally re-think how their metadata are used, 
> including use of that data by third parties. If OCLC's 
> proposed policy stands as written, libraries will effectively 
> be barred from considering innovative uses of their data 
> unless OCLC gives its blessing. And given the tone of the 
> proposed policy, how likely will that be?
> 
> Bernie Sloan
> Sora Associates
> Bloomington, IN
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