I believe that's $1000 for a five-year license, or $200 a year, for
unlimited use of the data as an XML download and/or as a web service.
That compares pretty favorably to, e.g., $325 / year minimum for access
to RDA Toolkit.
The real question here, I think, is not whether the price is right, but
whether licensing of this sort is the best course for the Getty to
pursue. They do already provide free access to their vocabularies in
human-readable form--why not expand that into open access to the
underlying data? The Getty vocabularies are far richer, semantically,
than LCSH; within their domain, they'd be a great deal more useful as
linked data than LCSH is in its id.loc.gov incarnation.
I see no reason why publishing the Getty vocabularies as open linked
data should disrupt their business model as a whole, either--they could
continue to license their data to the commercial vendors who use them
in, e.g., collection management systems, while providing this service to
the community at large.
On 4/19/2010 1:03 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote:
They wanted at least $1000 for the geographic terms. Doesn't sound very
reasonable to me, to be honest, especially since I was considering
developing an application based on their own CDWA schema.
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Cory Rockliff<rockl...@bgc.bard.edu>wrote:
Actually, their licensing terms for non-profits are very reasonable.
On 4/19/2010 11:43 AM, Ethan Gruber wrote:
I wonder how many thousands of dollars they will charge to use this.
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Mark A. Matienzo<m...@matienzo.org
wrote:
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From: Erin Coburn<ecob...@getty.edu>
Date: Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:54 AM
The Museum Computer Network (MCN), Gallery Systems, and the J. Paul
Getty Trust are pleased to offer a free Webinar on a new vocabulary
under development, the Cultural Objects Name Authority™ (CONA).
"Introducing the Getty’s new Cultural Objects Name Authority™ (CONA)"
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM EDT
The Cultural Objects Name Authority™ (CONA) is a new Getty vocabulary
currently under development. It is scheduled for introduction to the
contributor community in 2011. CONA will join the other three Getty
vocabularies, the Art& Architecture Thesaurus® (AAT), the Getty
Thesaurus of Geographic Names® (TGN), and the Union List of Artist Names®
(ULAN), as a tool for cataloging and retrieval of art information. CONA
will contain titles, current location, and other core information for
cultural works. The scope of CONA will include architecture and movable
works such as paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, manuscripts,
photographs, ceramics, textiles, furniture, and archaeological
artifacts. Murtha Baca, Head of Digital Art History Access at the Getty
Research Institute, and Patricia Harpring, Managing Editor of the Getty
Vocabulary Program, will present an introduction to CONA and will be
available for questions.
To register, please go to:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/307938058
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