Quoting Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com:
Yeah, this could get ugly pretty fast. It's a bit unclear to me what
the distinction is between identical terms in both the geographic
areas and the country codes
(http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/e-uk-en
I appreciate the spirit of this, but despair at the idea that
libraries organize their services around public domain works, thus
becoming early 20th century institutions. The gap between 1923 and
2011 is huge, and it makes no sense to users that a library provide
services based on
I, too, have been struggling with this aspect of the discussion. (I'm on the
DPLA list as well.) There seems to be this blind spot within the leadership of
the group to ignore the copyright problem and any interaction with publishers
of popular materials. One of the great hopes that I have for
Eric, thanks for finding enough merit in my post on the DPLA listserv
to repost it here.
Karen and Peter, I completely agree with your feelings-
But my point in throwing this idea out there was that despite all of
the copyright issues, we don't really do a great job making a simple,
intuitive,
Karen Miller works at Northwestern University where an authorities librarian
has been maintaining, to the dot, the authority related records (headings,
subdivisions, encoding, etc.) for over 20 years. If a cataloger there makes
a mistake, that will be fixed by the refined set of procedures run
I guess that people may already be familiar with the Candide 2.0 project at
NYPL http://candide.nypl.org/text/ - this sounds not dissimilar to the type of
approach being suggested
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I'm familiar with it, and I love it. Love the
Commentpresshttp://www.futureofthebook.org/commentpress/work as
well.
This project addresses participation and scholarly communication (nicely),
not the interface by which you access it. If you think about the audience
at a public library, it'd be
