LOC on the future of bibliographic control
February 14th, 2008 by Paul NikkelI’m a bit late to this party but anyone interested in bibliographic data, who controls it and the future of it as open/closed data should check out the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control at the Library of Congress and their recent draft report. This was responded to and concerns raised by the Open Knowledge Foundation. The OKF response to the working group has been signed and supported by just about every open access luminary out there.
Short excerpt from the intro:
The draft report of the Library of Congress’s Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control features many interesting suggestions. In particular we wholeheartedly endorse the vision of a bibliographic ecosystem which is “collaborative, decentralized, international in scope and web-based”. However, we are concerned that the report lacks any discussion of a key component for any future of bibliographic data: open licensing and access.