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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:02 AM, 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. I don't think it is part of SerSol's business model to offer a feed of the full metadata it aggregates, but it does seem to be part of the business model to offer an API upon which you could put your own interface to the underlying aggregated data. On Apr 21, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Joe Hourcle wrote: > Wouldn't this just a "union catalog"? "Catalog" is such a loaded term that I wouldn't want to touch it... ;-) Peter - -- Peter Murray http://www.pandc.org/peter/work/ Assistant Director, New Service Development tel:+1-614-728-3600;ext=338 OhioLINK: the Ohio Library and Information Network Columbus, Ohio The Disruptive Library Technology Jester http://dltj.org/ Attrib-Noncomm-Share http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Ask me how you can start digitally signing your email. iEYEARECAAYFAknuC9EACgkQ4+t4qSfPIHIhuACgsVi/3EvjwgvRw9leoj0JzjWL yTwAnjBGmJnjrIvdoVe39mcihZB6nkjJ =XLA8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----