[open-bibliography] Fwd: LibraryCloud university of florida

[Jim Pitman]

Karen Coyle <kcoyle at kcoyle.net> wrote:

> They didn't provide an export because they didn't think it would be  
> useful. Some of us have suggested it to them. The export would most  
> likely be in MARC format. Should we continue to press them on this?

I definitely think we should encourage all agents releasing data to provide
a dump. This allows others to opportunistically upgrade the data format and
cross link it to other sources.  The value of individual releases may be limited,
but collectively the value should grow.
--Jim

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