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OCLC Responds to the National Library of Sweden Comments From Earlier This Week
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Libraries, National Libraries, Resources
|OCLC’s response to the National Library of Sweden comments re: NLS catalog data and were written by Jim Michalko, Vice President, OCLC Research Library Partnership. They’re posted on the OCLC Cooperative Blog earlier today. From Michalko’s Comments: OCLC is in discussions with the National Library of Sweden about the Library’s recent post to its website. […]
From a News Release: The Donohue Group Incorporated (DGI) and SkyRiver announce a collaboration whereby DGI will contribute full and in-process MARC records to the SkyRiver database. DGI’s clients include several publishers of nonprint and electronic content such as Playaway, Recorded Books, and AudioGo. These publishers have negotiated with SkyRiver to permit DGI to contribute […]
From the National Library of Sweden: The National Library has ended negotiations with OCLC, as the parties could not successfully come to terms on a contract. [Clip] Background Since 2006, the National Library has been negotiating with the OCLC on participation in WorldCat. A test contract was concluded in 2007 between the National Library and […]
NISO and Open Archives Initiative Receive Grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to Create Resource Synchronization Standard
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|From the National Institute of Standards Organizations: The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the Open Archives Initiative have been awarded a $222,000 grant for a joint project to develop a new open standard on the real-time synchronization of Web resources. Increasingly, large-scale digital collections are available from multiple hosting locations, are cached at multiple […]
The article looks at Professor Geoffery Nunberg’s 2009 comments about the poor quality of Google Books metadata and includes new comments by Nunberg about what he sees today. From Times Higher Education: In response to Professor Nunberg’s critique, Google offered to correct any errors that were brought to its attention. But while this process has […]
From the Book Industry Study Group: The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) announced today the publication of a new Policy Statement detailing best practices for assigning ISBNs to digital products. Developed over the past 18 months within BISG’s Identification Committee, BISG Policy Statement POL-1101 addresses the critical need to reduce product identification confusion in the […]
From SkyRiver: SkyRiver has announced a unique approach to implementing RDA (Resource Description and Access) that allows libraries to adopt this new cataloging standard on a schedule that fits their circumstances. Effective December 1, 2011, SkyRiver users have three options for viewing and exporting bibliographic data: RDA Mode for libraries preparing for or ready to […]
UK: National Archives Awards Catalouging Grants To "Open Up" Valuable Collections
Archives and Special Collections, Awards, Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, Resources
|From a National Archives Announcement: Access to 12 archive collections is set to be transformed by a series of grants announced today. The National Cataloguing Grants Programme 2011 has awarded £420,000 to archives across the UK to help make these vitally important collections fully accessible for the first time. [Clip] Melinda Haunton, Programmes Manager at […]
The Internet Archive has posted a text summary of Brewster Kahle’s Long Now Foundation seminar titled, “Universal Access to All Knowledge” that was presented on November 30, 2011 at the Cowell Theatre in Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, California. The summary was written by Stewart Brand, cofounder of the Long Now Foundation and many […]
New Whitepaper from Europeana: A Business Model Perspective on Open Metadata
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|Direct to Summary/News Release Today Europeana publishes its second White Paper, ‘The Problem of the Yellow Milkmaid: a Business Model perspective on Open Metadata’. The paper is the result of a roundtable that brought together leading figures in the cultural heritage sector. The experts examined the opportunities and risks associated with open licensing of their […]