Hi Laura,

Here are some reasons I may have overheard.

Stuck halfway: "We have an OAI-PMH endpoint, so we're open, right?"

Lack of funding for sorting out our own rights: "We gathered metadata from
various sources and integrated the result - we even call ourselves Open
L*****y - but we [don't have manpower to figure out what we can do with
it, so we added a disclaimer]."

Cultural: "We're not sure how to prevent losing the records' provenance
after we released our metadata."


Groeten van Ben

On 29-04-14 19:02, "Laura Krier" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Hi Code4Libbers,
>
>I'd like to find out from as many people as are interested what barriers
>you feel exist right now to you releasing your library's bibliographic
>metadata openly. I'm curious about all kinds of barriers: technical,
>political, financial, cultural. Even if it seems obvious, I'd like to hear
>about it.
>
>Thanks in advance for your feedback! You can send it to me privately if
>you'd prefer.
>
>Laura
>
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