Re: WorldCat Works Data

Yes, don¹t get me started on the whole "business model protection at all
costs² logjam that prevents anything interesting from happening in this
world. Internationally, there¹s a lot more acceptance of the importance of
work-level identification, so I suspect that eventually these publishers
will be brought into conformance by way of their French/German/Italian/UK
offices.

From:  Tom Morris <tfmorris@gmail.com>
Date:  Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at 10:18 AM
To:  Laura Dawson <ljndawson@gmail.com>
Cc:  "Wallis,Richard" <Richard.Wallis@oclc.org>, "public-schemabibex@w3.org"
<public-schemabibex@w3.org>
Subject:  Re: WorldCat Works Data

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:10 AM, LAURA DAWSON <ljndawson@gmail.com> wrote:
> The other, larger, kill factor was the problem of linking together competing
> editions ­ two major publishers flat-out refused to do it.

Thankfully publishers don't have any control over things like Freebase,
OpenLibrary or OCLC, so this will happen whether they like it or not -- and
for public domain works, some of those "competing" editions will be free
ones hosted at Project Gutenberg or the Internet Archive.

Tom