Open Access Libraries

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

I am sure that the librarians on the list know this issue inside and out, but it is new to me.  I know that data portal catalogue entries do not make it to the web, which means you have to know which portal/library to look for specific stuff, and of course i know that when you look for a book on the web you have to scroll down quite a bit to find a non amazon etc. link, but i had not realized that there was resistance to integrating library catalogue systems so that we may search the worlds collections.  I know this ain't data but it sure is a lot of information!

Why you can't find a library book in your search engine

Finding a book at your local library should just involve a simple web search. But thanks to a US cataloguing site, that is far from the case

Wendy M Grossman
The Guardian, Thursday 22 January 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/22/library-search-engines-books

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Tracey P. Lauriault
613-234-2805
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[Heather Morrison]

Most librarians are appalled at this, and want records to be freely available to all.  There will be much discussion on this topic in library circles in the coming months.

Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author alone, and does not represent the opinion or policy of BC Electronic Network or Simon Fraser University Library.

Heather Morrison

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On 24-Jan-09, at 10:27 AM, "Tracey P. Lauriault" <[hidden email]> wrote:

I am sure that the librarians on the list know this issue inside and out, but it is new to me.  I know that data portal catalogue entries do not make it to the web, which means you have to know which portal/library to look for specific stuff, and of course i know that when you look for a book on the web you have to scroll down quite a bit to find a non amazon etc. link, but i had not realized that there was resistance to integrating library catalogue systems so that we may search the worlds collections.  I know this ain't data but it sure is a lot of information!

Why you can't find a library book in your search engine

Finding a book at your local library should just involve a simple web search. But thanks to a US cataloguing site, that is far from the case

Wendy M Grossman
The Guardian, Thursday 22 January 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/22/library-search-engines-books

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Tracey P. Lauriault
613-234-2805
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault

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[Glen Newton]

While I am not a librarian, I work in a library (CISTI, the National
Science Library) in the area of research in infrormation retrieval in
digital libraries. Libraries do expose their catalogs online (see
http://cat.cisti.nrc.ca), but not using open apis (library catalog
systems are the definition of closed systems). But they are part of
the deep web and engines like Google are getting better at searching
the deep web.

But the article is entirely accurate on the state of library data and
how OCLC is behaving in the market and to libraries and others
interested in using this data in interesting and innovative ways.

The shutdown of Ed Summers work involving the Semantic Web and Linked
Data[1] was so unfortunate and simply bizarre particularly given who
made him shut it down.

-Glen

[1]http://linkeddata.org/

Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author alone, and does
not represent the opinion or policy of the National Research Council
Canada or the Government of Canada

2009/1/24 Heather Morrison <[hidden email]>:

> Most librarians are appalled at this, and want records to be freely
> available to all.  There will be much discussion on this topic in library
> circles in the coming months.
> Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author alone, and does
> not represent the opinion or policy of BC Electronic Network or Simon Fraser
> University Library.
>
> Heather Morrison
> [hidden email]
> Sent from my mobile device
> On 24-Jan-09, at 10:27 AM, "Tracey P. Lauriault" <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> I am sure that the librarians on the list know this issue inside and out,
> but it is new to me.  I know that data portal catalogue entries do not make
> it to the web, which means you have to know which portal/library to look for
> specific stuff, and of course i know that when you look for a book on the
> web you have to scroll down quite a bit to find a non amazon etc. link, but
> i had not realized that there was resistance to integrating library
> catalogue systems so that we may search the worlds collections.  I know this
> ain't data but it sure is a lot of information!
>
> Why you can't find a library book in your search engine
>
> Finding a book at your local library should just involve a simple web
> search. But thanks to a US cataloguing site, that is far from the case
>
> Wendy M Grossman
> The Guardian, Thursday 22 January 2009
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/22/library-search-engines-books
>
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> Tracey P. Lauriault
> 613-234-2805
> https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
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