You can’t trip over what’s not there…

2006 December 4
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So begins today’s press release out of Plymouth State University and libraries and librarians, nay, ALL of our Granite State should walk a bit taller. One of our own, Casey Bisson was honored by the Mellon Foundation this afternoon with a MATC Award for his open source project, WPOPAC.

Bisson scribble

I feel some particular kinship with WPOPAC having participated in many boisterous conversations about online library resource provision and the ins-and-outs of interface design, I feel like a very stakeholder in the project.

Congratulations, Casey, my colleague and friend, on a job well done and a recognition you richly deserve.

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2006 December 18
Remaining Relevant » Blog Archive » If you’re small, open data MIGHT be the point permalink

[...] 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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