Can someone help me to understand this? It looks to me like you can
search them in your browser through WorldCat.org, but not by machine
and, presumably, the WorldCat.org TOS applies. If you subscribe to a
FirstSearch you get access, and if you contribute records to it, you
can get free access. Since the data is not available outside of
FirstSearch, and FirstSearch is only for libraries, companies cannot
get access.
This is all very complex stuff, so, please, someone tell me if I'm
wrong. It looks me like a project designed to expose the "hidden web,"
of openly accessible but unindexed data, has become part of the
"hidden web" of *access-restricted* data. Right?
Tim
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Peter Murray <peter_at_ohiolink.edu> wrote:
> Roy Tennant has a post on the RLG Programs site with more information about
> OAIster's future at OCLC.
>
> http://hangingtogether.org/?p=738
Received on Tue Sep 22 2009 - 11:27:31 EDT