Sharing the Work: A Key to Successful Digital Libraries
Internet gives new opportunities for collaboration, resource sharing, e.g.
- Coordinated cataloging, acquisition (some now, can be done more openly and broadly)
- Sharing crucial metadata (Catalog of Copyright Entries)
- Dealing with diverse data formats (TOM broker architecture)
Big long-term payoff for designs, organizations that support collaborative collections
- "giving it away" also enables amortizing cost of improvement & maintenance over wide constituency