On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Kyle Banerjee <banerjek_at_uoregon.edu> wrote:
>> Does it radically change anything about the bibliographic data? This
>> is not to say that back-office efficiencies aren't needed (definitely
>> they are), but unless they can start dramatically affecting how we can
>> display and reuse our data, I sort of feel that this is just "the same
>> turd, in different clothing, in the cloud".
>>
>
> If that's all it does, WMS would not be very interesting.
>
> However, my understanding is that one of the major components of WMS is a
> developer's platform that allows library and vendor developers to create
> applications that interact with WMS.
My point, though, is that if it's still based on MARC in/MARC out and
all of the other legacy means of data in/data out (since it's not as
though OCLC's other infrastructure predicated on that has
disappeared), I'm finding it hard to get terribly excited about "WMS
as development platform".
Learning that one of the APIs is an NCIP 2 interface does nothing to
discourage this feeling.
-Ross.
Received on Thu Aug 12 2010 - 13:09:00 EDT