In the context of making metadata available for online content, here's an interesting development. EBSCO, one of the biggest providers of a boatload of content of many types to libraries, has just decided to make its metadata freely available to discovery services without requiring use of their API:
http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2014/05/metadata/ebsco-opens-metadata-third-party-discovery-services/
This involves "all metadata for 129 of its full-text databases, more than 550,000 ebooks and more than 70 historical digital archives."
They are doing this in alignment with NISO's "Open Discovery Initiative" (ODI):
http://www.niso.org/workrooms/odi/
FWIW. . . .
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