John Mark Ockerbloom
Apr. 11, 2006
Where and how to construct this knowledge base?
•Stick with individually curated flat files?
–Certainly easy to store, trade; hard to scale
•Wiki base with structured data and review?
–We built one not long ago: Fred (format registry demonstration that was prototype for GDFR)
»http://tom.library.upenn.edu/fred/ for reference
•Add-on to existing catalog/registry?
–E.g. Registry of Digital Masters on OCLC
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•Should extended scope be considered?
–Journals: Info on digitizations as well as copyright?
–Copyrights: info on non-journal copyrights as well?
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•Who will use and support it, and what do they need?
"We held ourselves back to do something simple without messing it up"
        -- Karen Coyle