Quoting "J. McRee Elrod" <[email protected]>:
Perhaps in your writing you should make in clearer that (1) we are not there yet, and that (2) individual cataloguing agencies will not be replacing national catalogue agency records with "upstream" data.
OCLC is already taking in publisher data, as is the Open Library. I believe LC is also taking in publisher data. Probably many others are doing so as well. They all use what they need and ignore the rest. What we've been talking about here is *sharing* data between different communities, not replacing one community's data with another.
I don't know what your client wanted, but perhaps they wanted some of the data publisher's provide that they don't get in library catalog records, things like blurbs, tables of contents, author bios.... things that would make the library catalog a bit less dry for their users.
kc
We will experiment with enriched metadata in the automated production of proto MARC records to be completed by cataloguers, for the 10% of titles for which we do not find LAC records. (These are all Canadian publications.) I suspect however that if there is much capture of upspream data, it would be by the national cataloguing agencies. __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod ([email protected]) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________
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