http://remainingrelevant.net/remaining/170 Why stop dreaming when you wake up? Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:13:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://remainingrelevant.net/remaining/170#comment-2664 Remaining Relevant » Blog Archive » If you’re small, open data MIGHT be the point Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:05:49 +0000 http://localhost/remainingrelevant/?p=170#comment-2664 [...] I’ve been reading, with interest, the conversations around the recent Mellon Award bestowed upon Casey Bisson and its possible implications for the landscape of bibliographic data. Tim’s been talking about it some, which is great. But the most substantive comment comes today from Dan Chudnov: First off, the LC bibliographic data is not exactly being held captive. Anybody can go buy a copy of this data now right from LC or from third parties today. The cost of this data is not in any way prohibitive for a medium- to large-scale institution that is already used to doing Big Deals in the six and seven figures. As I understand it many largeish library institutions *already* have access to the whole dataset and use it regularly for cataloging. I know this because I have a copy of some of it on one of my workstations, a copy I was allowed to use for research purposes. Granted, this came while I was working at Yale, but I assure you, Yale’s not the only place where this might be true. [Emphasis mine.] [...] [...] I’ve been reading, with interest, the conversations around the recent Mellon Award bestowed upon Casey Bisson and its possible implications for the landscape of bibliographic data. Tim’s been talking about it some, which is great. But the most substantive comment comes today from Dan Chudnov: First off, the LC bibliographic data is not exactly being held captive. Anybody can go buy a copy of this data now right from LC or from third parties today. The cost of this data is not in any way prohibitive for a medium- to large-scale institution that is already used to doing Big Deals in the six and seven figures. As I understand it many largeish library institutions *already* have access to the whole dataset and use it regularly for cataloging. I know this because I have a copy of some of it on one of my workstations, a copy I was allowed to use for research purposes. Granted, this came while I was working at Yale, but I assure you, Yale’s not the only place where this might be true. [Emphasis mine.] [...]

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