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biblios.net and the future of cataloging: Not to be confused with just “Biblios“, which is LibLime’s new open source cataloger’s editor. That’s cool too, but Jonathan Rochkind is talking about biblios.net, which is basically a shared metadata store. That is, technological support for ‘cooperative cataloging’. That is, what we used to call a ‘bibliographic utility’. The Biblios editor uses the biblios.net shared metadata store, but it’s not restricted to use by the Biblios editor, anyone can use it.
‡biblios.net is a web-based original and copy cataloging tool with built in federated search of any Z39.50 target (via an integrated search registry with over 2000 targets - or by adding your own) and a large (30 million strong) shared database of catalog records. This means that you can visit ‡biblios.net and benefit from the work of other catalogers who have gone before you. You can also edit and contribute to the database without any restrictions.
LibraryThing's success—we recently hit three-hundred thousand members and twenty million books—has spawned competitors, more than forty at last count. We respect them. Some of the best include BookJetty (gorgeous), Anobii (simple and big in China),
D-Lib Magazine. January/February 2007. Volume 13 Number 1/2. The Online Library Catalog. Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained? Karen Markey University of Michigan.
SkyRiver is positioning itself as a pure, fully-featured bibliographic utility. SkyRiver subscribers can use bibliographic records from its service without restriction including, presumably, giving them away to non-subscribers. SkyRiver says it is also placing an emphasis on the quality, not quantity, of records. it will launch in January 2010 with 20 million records from the Library of Congress and the British library.
P. Heymann, A. Paepcke, and H. Garcia-Molina. Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2010), page 1--10. Stanford University, (February 2010)