Fwd: [metadata] Interesting development

Hi all,
I thought this news might be interesting to this group as well.
Best
Daniel

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> Resent-From: public-digipub-ig@w3.org
> From: Bill Kasdorf <bkasdorf@apexcovantage.com>
> Subject: [metadata] Interesting development
> Date: May 6, 2014 at 17:01:33 GMT-3
> To: "public-digipub-ig@w3.org" <public-digipub-ig@w3.org>
> 
> 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:
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> http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2014/05/metadata/ebsco-opens-metadata-third-party-discovery-services/
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> This involves "all metadata for 129 of its full-text databases, more than 550,000 ebooks and more than 70 historical digital archives."
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> They are doing this in alignment with NISO's "Open Discovery Initiative" (ODI):
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> http://www.niso.org/workrooms/odi/
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> FWIW. . . .
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> Bill Kasdorf
> Vice President, Apex Content Solutions
> Apex CoVantage
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> bkasdorf@apexcovantage.com
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> 

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