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

Sat Jan 19 21:54:11 UTC 2013

I was thinking of sound recordings, since, AFAIK, the market for scores 
is pretty much a niche market. Much of the impetus for creating and 
spreading metadata has been online sales sites like Amazon, and perhaps 
iTunes (although I do not know where the latter gets its metadata from). 
You can easily find studies addressed to the publishing industry about 
metadata and sales -- although, in fact, these aren't as conclusive as 
one might hope.

kc

On 1/19/13 1:18 PM, Matthew Dovey wrote:
> 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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>>> University of Cambridge
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>>
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