Rinne, Nathan (ESC) wrote:
> When it comes to the valuable treasure of privately and publicly funded
> metadata that librarians have created over the years, do we really want
> Google to be freely unchecked and duty-bound to no one? Free to use the
> metadata however they want?
Yep, I do, I want Google and everyone else to be free to use our
collective patrimony of metadata however they want. That will give us
the highest value for it, the more people use the metadata, the greater
the return on our investment of creating that metadata.
What I don't want is Google to have _special_ rights to do that.
So I'm more worried about the secret nature of the agreement that gives
Google rights others don't have, then I am about giving Google 'too
much'. Give em everything, just as long as you aren't giving them
_special_ privileges to everything that nobody else has.
Jonathan
Received on Thu Sep 10 2009 - 10:44:24 EDT