Quoting "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2_at_YAHOO.COM>:
> I just thought of something funny...
>
> Google has gotten a *lot* of static from the library community about
> the Google book settlement.
>
> And now the library community wants Google to play nice and use
> library metadata in a certain way in GBS that would benefit libraries.
Google has also gotten a great deal of support from the library
community -- at least as much (or more) support than flack. Obviously,
the participating libraries are very much FOR the Google Book product.
Even the ALA statement proposed that the settlement should be agreed
by the judge, although it suggested adding some oversight for the
future. From what I can tell, a good many academic institutions look
forward to providing the Google Books subscription service to their
users. In fact, Google is offering a deal that no one anticipates
refusing, although many fear that they will find the price onerous.
kc
>
> There's just a little bit of irony there.
>
> Bernie Sloan
>
> Subject: Re: Library functions and GBS
> From: "Dobbs, Aaron"
> Reply-To: Next generation catalogs for libraries
> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:50:44 -0400
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> 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" <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> 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)?
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Received on Wed Sep 16 2009 - 12:55:26 EDT