Searchable database of Marc records of CD's and

[Peter Murray]

To what end?  Would one take this MARC record and import it into an ILS? 
That may be useful, but I wonder if bibliographic utilities might have 
better (more accurate) records.  Or would you be proposing that PC-based 
CD Players would generate MARC records rather than their own proprietary 
format for storing information about CDs on the hard drive?

Before reusing CDDB records, you may want to take a look at the licensing 
terms.  I ran across a CDDB (a.k.a "Gracenote") alternative that make it 
sound like use of the original CDDB database is being clamped down.

 <http://freedb.org/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=2>

Specifically, the CDDB-licensed application "is not designed to allow 
transfer of data between the Gracenote CDDB database, and other internet 
databases."
  <http://www.gracenote.com/FAQs.html/faqset=licerr/page=5>


Peter

--On Friday, September 28, 2001 11:46 AM -0700 Don Hamilton 
<dhamilto at wlu.ca> wrote:

> Now the question for the library world, as defined by members of
> web4lib.... If someone built a (free) program such that inserting a CD
> would result in a marc record for said cd, based on what's in the cddb
> database,  somewhere on your computer, would such a program be used?


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Peter Murray, Computer Services Librarian              W: 860-570-5233
University of Connecticut Law School             Hartford, Connecticut