Hello all,
Here's a big opportunity heading our direction: Open source book metadata, possibly from OCLC.
What will happen when open source data about books meets up with the Wikipedia format: a flexible way for anybody to link different material to a book or author: article text, summaries, categories, subjects, keywords, links to registries of people, places, things ... ?
Immediate practical impact: easy input of book references is a big key to clearing up WP "no reliable source" problems. But there's more possibility ...
Here's some background on the major players, to plant a seed with you and get your creative juices flowing:
Everybody's Libraries, May 24, 2011
Open data’s role in transforming our bibliographic framework http://everybodyslibraries.com/2011/05/24/open-datas-role-in-transforming-ou...
How do we get OCLC to release its data? Any ideas?
Cheers! Kristin