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Re: docster: instant document delivery



Hi all --

Enjoying the discussion of docster -- what a great idea!

Hmm, I guess OCLC would be the proper place to host the docster server.  The main problem I see with integrating docster with OCLC would be the fact that the two are at separate levels of granularity -- OCLC deals with monographs & serials, docster is one level finer, at the document level.  The docster metadata would probably include the fact that a given document "belongs" to a given serial, but the OCLC workflow model would then still need to be altered to explicitly search the docster database (before? after?) locating the serial holdings of member libraries.  For newer published items that have a DOI (digital object identifier) assigned to them, this would facilitate this linkage to some extent.

The docster client system would also be great if it could connect to Clio/ILLiad/etc. and keep tabs of materials requested for purposes of Copyright Clearinghouse royalties.

I wonder about the legality of maintaining a repository of digitized documents too (even if copyright permissions were sought and royalties paid) . . . I remember that maybe a year and a half ago, CARL UnCover settled out of court with some publishers, essentially because they were keeping a repository of digitized copies of articles which the publishers found infringing.

I don't know to what extent that OCLC is interested in getting involved with these types of ideas . . . it makes sense for them to be interested and involved, but also would change the way they do business, which organizations don't always face eagerly or embrace.

  - pascal

At 01:39 PM 4/17/00 -0500, adam_chandler@usgs.gov wrote:

daniel,

oclc: i'm just looking at our own workflow here at the usgs national
wetlands research center. our ill person searches for items through ill.
then she makes the request based on reciprocal borrowing arrangements, our
oclc regional affiliation,  and so forth. sometimes the requested item
comes through ariel, sometimes it comes through the mail. let me put it
this way:

what IS the role of oclc ill in the docster scenario? if the answer is "it
has no role" that answer does not cover the reality of moving from what we
do today (oclc) to moving to the docster model.

don't get me wrong, i like the docster idea.

- adam

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