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Andrew Pace, Greetings, On 11-3-2010 you stated: *We believe it is critical to maintain a research approach to some of these services so that the community can determine which ones have the legs to foster cooperative innovation. We will do better in communicating and discussing these distinctions with the DevNet community.* You have not done better. Questions of 3-18-2011 to Karen (below) on the nature of collaboration between DevNet and WorldCat researchers, and on the value of displaying bibliographic mistakes were not answered. This has been a pattern and an approach. Evidently, Karen relies on other staff at OCLC/WorldCat given the organizational structure you enabled. Under your leadership, WorldCat still cheer-leads mashatons and collaborations while it: - has not created a quality control for checking DevNet developments before they are issued. That labor is passed as free labor to non-OCLC developers; - has not created a platform where non-OCLC-DevNet researchers could shape decisions about the service; Here's a thought: were OCLC to sell Identities (?) to Google, profits for non-OCLC developers' labor will go to OCLC, not to these developers. A profitable corporate loophole. Such business model seems plausible for a 'populist' corporation seeking profits. Disappointingly, it contradicts your 11-3-2010 commitment to us. Without proper responsiveness to questions and without direct access to decisions made, communication with developers is rendered trivial. Specific questions are trivialized by vanilla replies such as 'WorldCat will be closely looking at this' while Dublin's WorldCat decides *without* these developers. Other corporations call this business model Deregulation. Mr. Pace, I have enormous respect for the Identities team. It's not that team that administers the corporate bottom line structure, and the lack of QC and platform for coordinated decisions I refer to. It is at your level where these researchers, possibly best in the industry, could be enabled to collaborate with other teams at OCLC and outside OCLC. I look forward to how you will conduct the changes you committed to us five months ago, Respectfully, *Ya'aqov Ziso.* * * On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Ya'aqov Ziso <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > .... by using only names from authority files, we might also lose alternative names that we are currently displaying because we don’t possess authority files containing those versions. > yz >> there is no authority check on bib records' names you are displaying; anything can be present there; in this case 880 (alternate graphic/vernacular field) displays an incorrect mix of CJK and Latin-1. And we get it. > yz >> what is the value of having such mix scripted heading? > We need to carefully consider these factors as well as the resources necessary to refactor the Identities code before making a decision to switch how the alternative names are generated > yz >> which criteria are you going to consider? what access does DevNet have to these criteria and resulting deliberations? was there a tacit (?) agreement DevNet will (labor free) do the checks of what WorldCat will decide, while DevNet and WorldCat work as disparate bodies on this case (and maybe others)?