[open-bibliography] Inviting community engagement on building a bibliographic roadmap

Wed Jan 16 01:18:51 UTC 2013

  Karen Coyle writes

> Mainly that LC has already chosen a direction that does not have
> input from a larger community. 

  You mean RDA?  I am hard pressed to image what the committee would do
  to move the direction of that giant slow ship.

  More generally, there has always been the question of a business
  case for the expense of creating and maintaining free bibliographic
  data. Not surprisingly, as far as scholarly data is concerned,
  I find that RePEc gives us the best successful example for a model.
  ADS, DBLP, PubMed, SPIRES are other. Within the realm of this
  type of efforts there would be scope to coordinate. But if you
  bring in monographs, fiction books, ebooks, sound recordings etc
  the scope becomes really wide and the business model unclear. 

  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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