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.

This is available as a dump for their traditional holdings product, 
which makes it possible to do just this (i.e. use SerSol cleaned 
holdings/access info in a local system).  My working with SerSol has 
brought me to see them as essentially a great data aggregation service 
with some OK software bundled in.  We are looking ahead to possibly 
using this technique by loading their data into a local ERMS.

Agreed that such an availability of data would be a great service with 
the Summon metadata as well.

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