Long story short, this is where social engineering (in the positive sense) comes in.
Is there a list of the people involved in the GBS project at Google? (sure there is)
Do we have librarians who can explain library-record minutiae in their area? (heh, yes)
Do we know people (who may know people) who can connect the ngc4lib community (or at least a few of our members) with people working on the data-side in the GBS project? (this is the real question)
We certainly have people knowledgeable enough to explain the various data elements in library records and systems; we (librarians who can explain our insanely detailed (in a good way) data) just need to connect with the GBS project people who might not currently grok the importance of a certain field or the nuances of the myriad subfield mysteries.
The trick will be actually getting it done (without being all scary & stalker-ish)
-Aaron
:-)'
Quoting "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2_at_YAHOO.COM>:
> OK. So who convinces Google to add these metadata elements to GBS?
> Do we even know what OCLC metadata Google *plans* to use (or is
> already using)?
Received on Tue Sep 15 2009 - 08:52:26 EDT