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

Sat Jan 19 21:18:02 UTC 2013

I must confess when I first saw the posts about publishers giving metadata
away, I initially read that as referencing monograph/book publishers since
these are likely to see the metadata as purely advertising/marketing
material to the like of Amazon et al. and didn't initially think of serials.

I think there may also be different economic models in the music publishing
world as well - when you say "music publishers" are you talking about
publishers of music scores or publishers of musical performances (e.g.
audio/video)? 

Matthew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: open-bibliography-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:open-bibliography-
> bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle
> Sent: 19 January 2013 20:44
> To: Peter Murray-Rust; List for Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data
> Subject: Re: [open-bibliography] Inviting community engagement on building
> a bibliographic roadmap
> 
> 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:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle at kcoyle.net
> > <mailto:kcoyle at kcoyle.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     Sorry, Roy. Just wanted some examples of publishers making their
> >     ONIX data openly available. I'll look for a better example.
> >
> > Thanks - and I assume that Bibserver can hack this. It looks like it's
> > monographs not serials.
> >
> > P.
> >
> >
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