[Web4lib] Libraries that support user tagging in OPAC?

[Edward Vielmetti]

On Mar 10, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote:

It wouldn't be the first time - CDDB got turned into Gracenote,
and a bunch of user-contributed data got made proprietary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB tells a story.

Ed

> Far more important than where it is housed, is the legal issue of
> who owns and controls the collection of tags or metadata.  If
> users are invited to add to the collection ("harnessing the
> collective intelligence of the users", as Tim O'Reilly put it in
> today's webcast from Ann Arbor), whether that is tags at
> del.icio.us, reviews at amazon.com, or encyclopedic articles at
> wikipedia.org, will they later be charged a fee to access the
> collection they helped to build?
>
>
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>   Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
>   Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
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