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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<[log in to unmask]>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<[log in to unmask] >>> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: Erin Coburn<[log in to unmask]> >>>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> --- >>> [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Cory Rockliff >> Technical Services Librarian >> Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture >> 18 West 86th Street >> New York, NY 10024 >> T: (212) 501-3037 >> [log in to unmask] >> >> --- >> [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] >> >> > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > > > -- Cory Rockliff Technical Services Librarian Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture 18 West 86th Street New York, NY 10024 T: (212) 501-3037 [log in to unmask] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]