Their stated aims includes creating "a product of the people: letting them create and curate its catalog, contribute to its content, participate in its governance, and have full, free access to its data."
Behind the scenes is their very own metadata schema to capture and store the information it gets from various organizations or individuals. Even taking into account that they state it is simply something "we threw together to get the demo up" it’s difficult to take it too seriously when something as basic as an author’s name is recorded in a single field, with no way to parse the first and last names. If you feel strongly about this kind of thing, join the discussion. After all, it’s your catalog.
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