[open-bibliography] OCLC and FamilySearch partnership will combine resources for richer genealogy research experience

Tue Feb 5 12:10:27 UTC 2013

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:56 AM, todd.d.robbins at gmail.com <
todd.d.robbins at gmail.com> wrote:

> Very encouraging and exciting news:
>
> http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2013/20135.htm
>

I don't immediately see that this makes any information more Openly
available. It seems a closed cartel. Or am I missing something?

>
> Now to see if FamilySearch can be encourage to openly license their
> metadata.
>
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> Tod Robbins
> Digital Collections Librarian, MLIS
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