Thanks Andrew, I am in fact aware of that publication, and it is very
useful.
My understanding, from a number of sources, including comments Thom
Hickey (I think that was Thom? I actually missed his name in my notes)
made at the FRBR Implementer's Group meeting at ALA Midwinter, is that
the
PS: The more I think about this, the more burned up I actually get.
Which maybe means I shouldn't post about it, but hey, I've never been
one for circumspection.
If OCLC is us, then OCLC will gladly share with us (who are in fact
them, right?) their research on workset grouping algorithms, and
I've said it before and I'll probably say it again: OSLC anyone? OCLC is too
large and too old to substantially change their business practices. They have
great people working there and do some excellent things (which is why the fact
they won't share their goodies with the rest of us is so
How do you see an OSLC developing?
I've always felt the basis was getting some open library data—getting
the LC data out. This is apparently what the other Casey is doing.
Is there another way? Are there other supports that could be in place
when the LC data gets out?
T
On 5/10/07, Casey
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Subject: [CODE4LIB] OCLC is us (was Re: [CODE4LIB] more
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PS: The more I think about this, the more burned up I actually get.
Which
On 8 May 2007, Eric Hellman wrote:
xISBN is free for non-commercial, low volume use.
The xISBN web site clarifies this as meaning = 500 queries per day for
non-commercial purposes. Over 500 queries in a day for non-commercial
use, or any number of queries for commercial use, requires paying:
Interesting.
Thom Hickey commented a while ago about LibX's use of xISBN (*): I
suspect that eventually the LibX xISBN support will become both less
visible and more automatic.
We were indeed planning on making it more automatic. For instance, a
user visiting a vendor's page such as amazon
On May 9, 2007, at 11:56 AM, William Denton wrote:
On 8 May 2007, Eric Hellman wrote:
xISBN is free for non-commercial, low volume use.
A library would pay $3,000 USD a year to be able to do 10,000
queries a
day. That's a lot of queries, but I could imagine a big academic
library
doing a
Nathan Vack wrote:
Also... did I somehow miss the legislation in which factual
information (like, everything contained within xISBN) became
copyrightable?
License agreements can restrict just about anything the agreement wants
to. If it's an an agreement freely entered into, you can agree to a
As long as LibX is free and not being used as a way to drive Amazon
revenue, I don't see how it could be considered to be commercial.
We've studied our logs pretty carefully. Most of the sites that have
exceeded the limit we set were commercial sites doing bulk harvest.
You can track the xISBN
On 5/9/07, Eric Hellman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As long as LibX is free and not being used as a way to drive Amazon
revenue, I don't see how it could be considered to be commercial.
Probably a way to drive Amazon revenue down, considering that we offer
the alternative to borrow the book
Yeah, that's a good point, Eric.
I am, however, worried that I can't do what I want to do without
breaking 500 querries a day, and my institution is not going to be
willing to pay for it. So I'm interested in exploring other
opportunities. (Does Umlaut really not exceed 500 querries a day, for
At 4:41 PM -0400 5/9/07, Godmar Back wrote:
On 5/9/07, Eric Hellman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We've studied our logs pretty carefully. Most of the sites that have
exceeded the limit we set were commercial sites doing bulk harvest.
You can track the xISBN use by LibX by getting an affiliate id.
On 5/9/07, Jonathan Rochkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am, however, worried that I can't do what I want to do without
breaking 500 querries a day, and my institution is not going to be
willing to pay for it. So I'm interested in exploring other
opportunities. (Does Umlaut really not exceed 500
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