[DCRM-L] DCRM(B) and WorldCat

[Allison Jai O'Dell]

Nina is correct about records coded dcrm[x].

As for Jason's second point, this conversation has been going on at least
as long as I've been alive
<http://www.columbia.edu/~daviss/work/articles/iflajournal_1984.pdf>.  And
it keeps coming up, with no good solution.  To my mind, this is the #1
reason rare materials libraries should be considering linked data.

Jason, if I understand your vision correctly, you would like to see
copy-specific details displayed alongside the holding info?  Like:
*U.Miami has copy  |  U.Miami's copy in a blue cover.*
*Yale has copy  |  Yale's copy in a yellow cover.  Yale's copy donated by
Joe Shmoe.*

Or maybe through a bit of personalization?
*I see you're near New Haven.  Yale's copy is in a yellow cover, and was
donated by Joe Shmoe.*

OCLC is not going to store and provide access to copy-specific
information.  The solution is for *us* to expose our copy-specific
information.  If we, at our institutions, build open, accessible,
interoperable, linked data -- then WorldCat, Google, whoever, can use it.
And then researchers can see it!


Allison
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