[dlpdev] british library up's the stakes for the DLP

[Saul Albert]

There's an interesting thread on Slashdot today, about a new piece of 
legislation that requires the British Library and other 'deposit libraries'
(bound to collect every journal, book, magazine etc.. published in the UK)
to collect and catalogue electronic resources too.

There's a press release here that describes the existing legislation and 
why/how its changing:

http://www.bl.uk/cgi-bin/press.cgi?story=1382

and the slashdot thread is here (slashdot readers are still commenting
on it, some of which is always useful):

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/01/168207


This is interesting for me in the context of the DLP and the Antisystemic Library
because it extends the issues of 'official' taxonomies, access and collection
of resources to digital publishing too.

The ideas brought up at the last meeting about how to define book resources
- using web-addresses (URIs) to refer to individual books, like accession
numbers, easily extends to electronic resources (well, maybe its going in 
the other direction - from electronic to paper resources). 

Did everyone see Jo's notes on that idea?

http://dlpdev.theps.net/DlpGraphModels

Anyway, this seems to me to be upping the stakes for the DLP/AL project.
Seems we've got lots of work to do!

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