[Eg-oversight-board] Agenda suggestion: Research if EG community can use OCLC records

[Rogan Hamby]

I'm not evaluating in terms of the old policy, only the documents that
Yamil was referred to as that was what he was asking for comments on.  I
don't know to what degree if any those supersede past policies.  If that
old policy is in fact still in place I agree with you.


On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Dan Wells <dbw2 at calvin.edu> wrote:

>  I hope others weigh in, but I’m considering this (relatively) new OCLC
> policy through the lens of the old policy [2].  The goal of both policies,
> stated frankly, is to make the data usable to libraries in any reasonable
> way without making it easy for a third party to use the data to create a
> WorldCat competitor.  This has been a hard balance for them, and it leads
> to a lack of clarity as to what is required and what is merely recommended.
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> The old policy was very explicit in saying that, for members, “all
> transfers of records of their own holdings may be made without restriction,
> excepting only certain transfers to commercial organizations.”  I’m not
> sure if the new policy specifically mentions anywhere the “own holdings”
> restriction, but I think the spirit is still that membership entitles you
> to download records you need for your collection, and once you have those
> records, to use them in any way which is non-commercial and doesn’t compete
> with (and thus devalue) WorldCat as a whole.
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> It is my opinion that adding a set of OCLC RDA records to Evergreen for
> the purpose of improving the software is well within OCLC’s stated goals,
> and particularly if done with attribution, would be of no concern.  I would
> also volunteer to host any such record set if others are less comfortable
> with adding the records to the main repository.
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> Dan
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> [2] http://library.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15003coll17/id/108
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> Daniel Wells
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> Library Programmer/Analyst
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> Hekman Library, Calvin College
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> 616.526.7133
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