Tim, you are obviously living in a strange world, a world of licenses.
Have you not heard
about open access? Have you not heard about the million of books that
Google Book
Search or about National Academic Press, eScholarship Editions, Project
Gutenberg, Europeana
and many others?
I would say that "licenses, licenses, licenses" soon is more part of
history than the future and we
will have to create millions of new records.
I would say that digitalization will be our big challenge this century
not Big meals, sorry
Big Deals.
In a world where "money makes the world go around" we should give away
the most
valuable we have just for something called " "freedom, competition,
innovation" seems
rather naive and childish.
Jan
Tim Spalding skrev:
> My thoughts:
>
> Much of librarland has turned against its principles and hung out a
> big "Go away!" sign to freedom, competition, innovation and anyone
> outside the library world who has a good idea or who has the temerity
> to think that, since citizens pay for libraries, they have a right to
> library data.
>
> The rules are fuzzier than the first draft, but fuzzy rules aren't
> necessarily better. A true legal contract offers concrete protections
> and rights, which the new rules do not. The effect will be the same:
> the brief spring of open bibliographic data is over. You are stuck
> with OCLC forever. God help you.
>
> Libraries have undermined their moral authority about access to data
> just when ebook licenses are starting to cut libraries out. The future
> is clearly licenses, licenses, licenses. The way ebook licensing is
> going, that may well be biggest effect.
>
> But, most importantly, the policy is now in place. The time for
> talking is over. The time has come to shut up.
>
> Tim Spalding
>
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Jan Szczepanski
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