[open-bibliography] Fwd: LibraryCloud university of florida

[Karen Coyle]

When you suggest a dump to libraries their first thought is: how will  
we keep it up to date? I think this is a legitimate concern. Any data  
set produced more than one month ago is probably quite out of date  
already. In most library systems, creating a large dump is quite  
awkward since the systems are in constant use and a dump consumes  
considerable resources.

I think we should ask for dumps, but we either have to be concerned  
about keeping them up to date or we should expressly treat these as  
"experimental" and thus relieve the providing agency of the burden of  
reproducing dumps on a regular basis. (And I'm not convinced that a  
succession of full dumps truly serves the needs of folks building  
databases.)

kc

Quoting Jim Pitman <pitman at stat.Berkeley.EDU>:

> 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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