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Hi all, At Indiana University we're working on a project that will help us see concretely what FRBRized [1] library data and discovery systems might look like. [2] One of our project goals is to share the raw FRBRized data widely so that others can look at it to see how it's structured, reuse it, improve on it, comment on the FRBRization effectiveness, etc. We're planning on allowing remote/Web Services/API/SRU/some machine-to-machine method like that access to the data. As we're starting to think about how we should set that up, we thought it would be useful to gather some use cases from the code4lib community, as it's the folks here that are experimenting with services like this. So if there were FRBRized data available to you (at least for FRBR group 1 and group 2 entities; *maybe* group 3 as well), what would you do with it? What kinds of questions would your service (discovery system, whatever) ask a service that made this data available? What kinds of information would you want in a response? Would you have uses that called for downloading of "all" data at once or would you instead be better off with real-time queries to a web service? It's questions like that we're interested in brainstorming with this group about. Basically, what type of access to the data we're generating is most important, since we have finite resources to expend on this right now. Thanks, all! Jenn [1] http://www.loc.gov/cds/downloads/FRBR.PDF [2] http://vfrbr.info ======================== Jenn Riley Metadata Librarian Digital Library Program Indiana University - Bloomington Wells Library W501 (812) 856-5759 www.dlib.indiana.edu Inquiring Librarian blog: www.inquiringlibrarian.blogspot.com