Jonathan,
I'm not as convinced as you with your "greater R.O.I." argument. What
kind of "return" do you foresee? A couple other comments I'd be
interested in getting your response to:
1) Again, Google has a "de-facto" monopoly, given all they've scanned.
I don't like unbalanced monopolies beholden to no one. I'm not saying
you do, but again, isn't this what will most likely happen?
2) Re: "secret agreements", I understand your concern. It seems you
want everything more transparent and explicit. What if the details were
*more* transparent and explicit, but instead of giving everybody what
they want with no strings attached, there was some discrimination about
what persons/organizations could and couldn't do, given the nature and
purposes of their project? Would that be so objectionable?
Regards,
Nathan Rinne
Media Cataloging Technician
Educational Service Center
11200 93rd Avenue North
Maple Grove MN. 55369
Email: rinnen_at_district279.org
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[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jonathan Rochkind
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] An article to warm the hearts of cataloguers
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 - 11:45:49 EDT