Hi Luis, Thank you very much for your suggested edits!
However I wonder whether it could be too late to make any alterations given that not all signatories will be on okfn-discuss, and there's no easy way to confirm all changes with all signatories. What do people think? Regards, Jonathan Luis Villa wrote: > On Dec 13, 2007 5:09 AM, Rufus Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Just to update everyone: thanks to Aaron's efforts we've now got a final >> version of the response at: >> >> http://okfn.org/wiki/FutureOfBibliographicControl >> >> It's now nice and short so please do take a look and sign if you're >> happy to (and please circulate to anyone else who might be interested). >> It needs to be submitted tomorrow (Friday) so you'll want to do this >> sooner rather than later :) >> > > Suggested edits (there are so many, and some so substantive, I didn't > want to make them in the wiki without running them by people first): > > style edits: > * 'including people from' -> 'including representatives from' > * 'access and re-use without restriction.' -> 'unrestricted access and re-use' > * 'access, re-use and re-distribution without restriction.' -> > 'unrestricted access, re-use and re-distribution' > * 'simpler feedback' -> 'unimpeded feedback' > * 'but will also' -> 'but it will also' > * 'as well as many other possibilities we cannot predict in advance.' > -> 'and many other benefits that can't be predicted in advance.' > > content changing edits: > * add links for Open Access Journals/Open Educational resources/Open > Data; at least to the relevant Wikipedia articles if nothing else. > * 'incredible rise in community-led development and innovative uses.' > -> 'incredible increase in innovative development, contribution, and > use by communities, corporations, and governments' > * 'that more bibliographic data' -> 'that all bibliographic data' or > 'that bibliographic data' > > Blowing up the very long second sentence of the third paragraph, > structurally and some content: > > "Not only will this allow libraries to share records more efficiently > and improve quality more rapidly through better, simpler feedback, but > will also make possible more advanced online sites for book-lovers, > easier analysis by social scientists, interesting visualizations and > summary statistics by journalists and others, as well as many other > possibilities we cannot predict in advance." > > -> > > "This would have many predictable benefits: efficient record-sharing > and high-quality feedback for libraries, more advanced online sites > for students and book lovers, and better analysis and visualizations > by social scientists. Perhaps more importantly, increasing openness > always leads to benefits that can't be predicted ahead of time, since > it radically increases the number of people who can experiment and > innovate to fulfill their own serious needs and creative whims." > _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
