Talis Shares Bibliographic Records With The OpenLibrary - will others follow?
Announced by Brewster Kale in his opening keynote presentation at the Code4lib Conference in Portland, OR.
Talis is freely contributing its several million record bibliographic Union Catalogue to the Internet Archive’s Open Library Project.
The Talis Union has been built over many years by professional cataloguers in libraries all over the UK. This data set is a treasure trove of rare, old and out-of-print records as well as quality catalogue records for mainstream items.
The addition of this significant set of bibliographic data will add great value to this open initiative to provide one web page for every book ever published.
Following on from this announcement there was much discussion as to if others, specifically OCLC, would follow this lead.
Interestingly the word in the IRC channel and bar, from OCLC folks, is that there may well be an announcement about sharing something, from Dublin Ohio in the none too distant future….
