[open-bibliography] Library support and REST

[Ross Singer]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Jim Pitman <pitman at stat.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote in his blog http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=2668 :
>
> "Bibliography is the soul of scholarship. I thought that by collecting bibliography and turning it into an intelligent semantic resource then we would start a new era in the library."
>
> Me too.  Its disappointing but understandable that many librarians dont want to assist the transition.
> Perhaps someone on this list could suggest how to get the library community more engaged in this effort?

Why should libraries be tasked with this?

-Ross.