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Une pétition initiée par l’IGeLU et ELUNA en faveur d’une plus grande mise à disposition des métadonnées par les éditeurs et agrégateurs.

Metadata petition

We, the undersigned, members of the International Group of Ex Libris Users (IGeLU) and Ex Libris Users of North America (ELUNA), earnestly request that all content providers to which we subscribe be included in the Primo Central Index. This request is in line with the third principle of the International Coalition of Library Consortia Statement on the Economic Crisis, which encourages online providers and aggregators to allow their metadata to be included in discovery services, such as Primo, on a non-exclusive basis.

As librarians, we have an imperative to ensure that content, in which we invest so heavily, is readily available to all of our users and that it is integrated into our information services and system infrastructure in such a way as to actively encourage and facilitate its use.

Therefore, we deeply regret that EBSCO withdrew its data from Primo Central which serves as a primary discovery platform for our users. We urge EBSCO to again join the many other information providers whose content is already indexed in Primo Central, and to allow EBSCO data to be harvested and indexed in as comprehensive form as possible, to facilitate optimal discovery for our users. By not contributing data, EBSCO significantly decreases the value of our investment in its content. EBSCO’s compliance in this regard will help ensure the continuation of our subscription to EBSCO content.

We call on all content providers to support the emerging consolidated indexes as a basis for Comprehensive Resource Discovery Platforms. We believe that this is not only in the interest of the libraries, enabling us to provide state of the art services, but also in the interest of the content providers, by making their content more visible to the end users.

La pétition peut être signée sur http://igelu.org/metadata-petition.