[open-bibliography] Fwd: LibraryCloud university of florida

Tue Mar 22 04:58:21 UTC 2011

Karen Coyle <kcoyle at kcoyle.net> wrote:

> 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.)

Understood.  Would it be too much to ask libraries to plug their catalogs into OAI-PMH?
--Jim
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