Tim Spalding writes
> LibraryThing, a tiny little company with 9 employees and a rack of
> crap commodity servers, has a searchable, continuously updated store
> of unique records equal to half of the WorldCat database.
And I run a service for author claiming service for 85,000,000
authorships as a part of my digital library concerns and teach four
courses at a library school. Compared to Tim's and my operation,
OCLC indeed seems extraordinarily expensive.
But my initial mail was not against OCLC, it was about the positive
value of making more bibliographic data freely available.
Cheers,
Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel
http://authorclaim.org/profile/pkr1
skype: thomaskrichel
Received on Mon Mar 08 2010 - 20:45:06 EST