Karen Coyle wrote:
" It's not just conforming to standards or levels of standards: ONIX data has a different *purpose* from library data."
And Jim Weinheimer wrote:
" Libraries, [are] highly bureaucratized, and they are subservient to higher agencies; they could never have done what
Google has done."
I would add that it's a postivie that we have not done (or attempted to do) what Google has done. Academic libraries have a different mission and that's one reason our data has a different purpose.
Daniel
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Daniel CannCasciato
Head of Cataloging
Central Washington University Library
400 E. University Way
Ellensburg, WA 98926-7548
dcc_at_cwu.edu
Received on Thu Dec 23 2010 - 11:45:42 EST