LibLime is working on something similar with their biblios.net tool.  
beta.biblios.net.

They say they'll have the SSL cert issues fixed by tommorow. :)

Jonathan

Will Sexton wrote:
> [cross-posted to web4lib and code4lib lists]
>
> We’re embarking on a project to adopt or build a metadata tool at Duke 
> University Libraries. Before we’re immersed in architectures, designs, 
> workflows, schedules, layers, platforms, capacities, etc., I’d like to 
> indulge in some guilt-free big thinking. I thought I’d just kind of 
> put the question out there: What are some of the big ideas that could 
> inform the development of a metadata tool?
>
> I invite conversation here and on our Digital Collections Blog 
> (http://library.duke.edu/blogs/digital-collections/), where I've 
> posted an extended version of this message. Other conversations will 
> occur in various venues over the next month or so. I’ll try to pull 
> together and post on anything I see, hear, read or say. In the 
> meantime, I’ll share one big idea that I’ve been considering; I’m not 
> saying it’s THE big idea or even implying that we’ll follow through on 
> it at Duke. It’s just one way to bend our thinking about this project.
>
> The idea follows from a blog post that Lorcan Dempsey wrote in May, 
> mentioning an example of a “shared cataloging environment” 
> (http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001641.html). When I read it, I 
> wondered, what if you take that idea to its logical (illogical?) 
> extreme: a metadata tool as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform.
>
> I've elaborated on the idea in the blog post 
> (http://library.duke.edu/blogs/digital-collections/2008/11/24/grand-metadata-tool-ideas/). 
> I welcome any feedback on this idea, including, “You could never make 
> it work!” (why?). I’m interested in any other “big thoughts” that 
> people may have related to possibilities for a metadata tool platform.
>
> Will
> -- 
> Will Sexton
> Metadata Analyst / Programmer
> Duke University Libraries
>

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Jonathan Rochkind
Digital Services Software Engineer
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
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