From: William Gunn <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 10:45:16 -0700

I think Lisa makes a great point. If we every get to a place where we
can say, "Here's an open directory of everything, search across it",
then that will powerfully make the case for curated collections
thereof. In fact, every time you have a big collection of anything,
people want to form curated groups. Mendeley developed groups on top
of its open metadata catalog very quickly, as did Facebook, Twitter
with lists, etc. Of course, Danny Kingsley & Ricky Poynder point out,
that there's quite a bit of confusion around metadata - to what extent
it's factual information and thus not copyrightable.
https://twitter.com/dannykay68/status/728139116244656129

William Gunn
Director of Scholarly Communications, Mendeley
@mrgunn
http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn



On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 6:21 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: "Hinchliffe, Lisa W" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 23:24:19 +0000
>
> I always enjoy a thought experiment….
>
> If content were all open (and in this thought experiment let’s assume
> that is retroactive as well), GS could serve the function (as long as
> GOOG keeps it around). But, if we in libraries could re-purpose all
> the effort that is currently spent in libraries on enabling
> toll-access and mitigating against breaches, we might also create
> in-the-workflow tools for research groups/communities/campuses that
> would put access and discovery into existing information task tools
> rather than relying on a separate GS or the like system where
> information resources are retrieved and then brought into other
> systems for use, manipulation, etc. They could instead be accessed in
> situ. Especially if we are talking known item retrieval. For topical
> searches, I think the lessons of many studies of web-scale discovery
> thus far show that - as much value as there can be in “here’s
> everything search across it” – there is also value in curated
> collections for particular communities and content areas. So, we could
> do more of that as well if we didn’t have to always battle against
> content being in different toll-access systems.
>
> Lisa
>
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