Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
It _would_ be great if SerSol would actually give you (if you were subscribed) a feed of their harvested and normalized metadata, so you could still pay them to collect and normalize it, but then use it for your own purposes outside of Summon. I hope SerSol will consider this down the line, if Summon is succesful.
This is available as a dump for their traditional holdings product, which makes it possible to do just this (i.e. use SerSol cleaned holdings/access info in a local system). My working with SerSol has brought me to see them as essentially a great data aggregation service with some OK software bundled in. We are looking ahead to possibly using this technique by loading their data into a local ERMS.
Agreed that such an availability of data would be a great service with the Summon metadata as well.
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