Quoting Weinheimer Jim <j.weinheimer_at_AUR.EDU>:
>
> While I won't argue that my suggestion of making the links that we
> are able to right now may not be the "best" way to do it, but at
> least it is *one* way to go that can be done right now, with no
> retraining costs and creating an interface that can work with it.
> Wouldn't it be useful for the public?
Jim, it's hard to know what you are suggesting. LCSH is "out there"
(and if you count the months of the lcsh.info effort, has been for
well over a year) in a linked data format, but it appears that it
hasn't found its users. MARC in XML has been available for quite a
while, but we aren't seeing uptake for using the library data more
broadly. I suspect that there's an underlying problem that isn't
related to the format of the data, but the content.
kc
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Received on Wed Nov 11 2009 - 14:34:53 EST