[open-bibliography] Ex Libris forms expert group on open data in Alma

Wed Jun 22 14:27:01 UTC 2011

Actually, I know very little about it myself at this point, but I will  
provide info when I get it. My goal is to push toward openness of the  
data, and I believe that is also the goal of Ex Libris. As a company,  
they cannot do anything about "legal" openness, they can only enter  
into a contract with their users about the data they manage. Making  
the bibliographic data in their system open is undoubtedly related to  
a marketing advantage, but having a major vendor take up the question,  
with openness as a goal, is a good thing.

kc

Quoting Adrian Pohl <adrian.pohl at okfn.org>:

> Hello,
>
> Ex Libris has formed an "Expert Advisory Group for Open Data in the
> Alma Library Management Service", see http://bit.ly/jfPKDj
>
> Karen, can you provide some more information about this? It doesn't
> seem to be focused on legal openness. Also I find this document quite
> inconsistent. A phrase like the Alma Community zone being "a catalog
> of bibliographic records shared by all libraries that are using the
> Alma library management service" does sound more like an exclusive
> club than an open database to me. Alongside Karen's quote this is a
> bit strange.
>
> Best
> Adrian
>
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