Open Bibliographic Data : The State of Play is a post by Rufus Pollock at the Open Knowledge Foundation which examines a variety of sources for cataloging and database information. He makes the observation, which I think is on target, that when it comes to bibliographic data
You might even think, given the public-spiritedness of librarians, that this is the kind of area where not only could it be openly available but it would be openly available….
There is a movement out there working to create an open repository. It would make everyone’s job easier, especially if this repository could incorporate some type of authority checking by the users. Imagine leveraging the same type of error checking that Wikipedia uses, but on our catalog information.
One can dream…
found via Open Access News
