From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 08:46:08 -0400

I doubt it would work that way.  You can make bad decisions with bad
data, and we do that all the time.  We can also make good decisions
with bad data, which we applaud as intuition.  You are right to
suspect that we will make bad decisions with good data, but I think
the case is strong to make good, or at least better decisions with
good data.

Joe Esposito


On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:47 AM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Richard James <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 07:31:52 -0400
>
> Joe- would it be improved in the same way that the quality of U.S.
> movies is improved through the industry's detailed knowledge of
> attendance? The result of that data has been endless regurgitation of
> themes and topics, sequel after sequel, an almost monolithic
> reluctance to innovate or take chances. To some extent, you're asking
> libraries to pay into a scheme that might contribute to reducing the
> dissemination of ideas, and so I doubt you'll find too many librarians
> will be interested in participating. This one certainly isn't, absent
> a more compelling argument.
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:38 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 14:05:21 -0400
> >
> > Thank you, Douglas.
> >
> > The quality of book publishing would be vastly improved if publishers
> > had access to this circulation information by title.  I outlined a
> > program to make this possible a while back.  The post is here:
> >
> > http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2012/07/24/data-mining-the-library/
> >
> > I am trying now to get support to build this service.  This is not a
> > small project:  aggregate, real-time, fully anonymized circ data from
> > all the world's libraries, searchable by library type, institution,
> > publisher, title, subject category, etc.  In other words, precisely
> > what you would expect publishers to have, but they don't.
> >
> > Joe Esposito