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

Sat Jan 19 20:43:53 UTC 2013

Right, the folks giving away their metadata (because it helps sales) are 
generally the book publishers. Journal publication has an entirely 
different economic model because it' isn't a one-time sale but a 
subscription, and I haven't found a publisher-provided metadata for 
journal publications (which would cover the publication, not its 
contents). If journal publishers would get away from the serial view and 
publish and sell articles as monographs, we might see a major change in 
their view of metadata. In fact, the whole journal format is beginning 
to look old-fashioned to me as a product category.

I don't know yet about music publishers -- I don't think they yet have a 
standard metadata format.

kc.

On 1/19/13 11:51 AM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
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> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle at kcoyle.net
> <mailto:kcoyle at kcoyle.net>> wrote:
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>     Sorry, Roy. Just wanted some examples of publishers making their
>     ONIX data openly available. I'll look for a better example.
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> Thanks - and I assume that Bibserver can hack this. It looks like it's
> monographs not serials.
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> P.
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