Issue 91: Bibliographic Records and Mastodon Migration

Issue 91: Bibliographic Records and Mastodon Migration

Well, this newsletter was off the air longer than I anticipated.
A lot has happened since
issue 90 in late March
: cryptocurrency value falling, Twitter spiraling (
maybe a death-spiral
…can’t be too sure), and (in the U.S.) a whopper of a mid-term election season.
All is well here in the Jester’s home…I needed some time to build up some more tooling around the blog and newsletter — then summer came, and then fall, and before you knew it, eight months had passed before this issue came out.
Speaking of Twitter…I have mostly left it behind. The «DataG» account is still there, but I have turned off the automated posting and have stopped visiting the site.
I’ve made the migration to Mastodon on the Code4Lib instance; you can find me at
@dltj@code4lib.social
.
If you, too, have made the move, I hope you will follow me there and give me a chance to follow you back.
Threads from 12 years ago are still weaving their way through us today.
In the
11th issue of Thursday Threads
from 2010, I posted, among other things, about the
new free e-journal hosting from University of Pittsburgh on OJS
(and it looks like it is
still available as a service
!), the desire for
open bibliographic data
(and that is still a thing…see below), and the
masters degree in business administration earned through a Facebook app
(which, 12 years later, I would guess is no longer a thing).
I hope you and those close to you are doing well as we enter the last month of 2022.
Don’t be a stranger—drop me a line if you find this interesting or come across something you think I would want to know about.
OCLC versus Clarivate: In the Battle for Bibliographic Records, the Winner is ???
Moving On to Mastodon
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OCLC versus Clarivate: In the Battle for Bibliographic Records, the Winner is ???
Clarivate continues to deny OCLCs allegations of wrong-doing and maintains that the issue lay between OCLC and its customers, who sought to co-create an efficient community platform for sharing of bibliographic records. Clarivate will not develop a record exchange system of MARC records that include records which OCLC has claimed are subject to its policy and contractual limitations. Clarivate will bear its own fees and costs.
—
Clarivate and OCLC Settle Lawsuit
, Clarivate press release, 7-Nov-2022
Though the settlement document itself is confidential, two significant elements include:
Clarivate, Ex Libris, and ProQuest have ceased the development and marketing of the MetaDoor MARC record exchange system
developed using records that are subject to the WorldCat Rights and Responsi…