On 04/30/2014 09:38 AM, David Friggens wrote:
Hi Laura
I'd like to find out from as many people as are interested what barriers
you feel exist right now to you releasing your library's bibliographic
metadata openly.
One issue is that we pay for enrichments (tables of contents etc) for
records, and I believe the licence restricts us from giving them to
other people. We send our records to the national union catalogue and
OCLC before adding the enrichments, and we'd need to take them out
before we could "release" records elsewhere.
Note that this is primarily a problem because MARC assumes that all
versioning is done at the record level; there's no easy way to say "the
core bib item is from X, the TOC is from Y and the cover image is from Z".
cheers
stuart
