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On 04/30/2014 09:38 AM, David Friggens wrote: > Hi Laura > >> 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. > > One issue is that we pay for enrichments (tables of contents etc) for > records, and I believe the licence restricts us from giving them to > other people. We send our records to the national union catalogue and > OCLC before adding the enrichments, and we'd need to take them out > before we could "release" records elsewhere. Note that this is primarily a problem because MARC assumes that all versioning is done at the record level; there's no easy way to say "the core bib item is from X, the TOC is from Y and the cover image is from Z". cheers stuart