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The Context of the Agreement 2Metadata Agreement • February 24th, 2022
This agreement represents new territory for UK academic and specialist libraries. We have been in discussions for at least the last five years about how to try and open up library data and how to make adjustments to a UK bibliographic data ecosystem that is constrained, inefficient and complex. Solving the entirety of that challenge will take time and a multiplicity of approaches, but this agreement represents progress on the journey towards a more open data ecosystem. It enables the UK library community to better exploit the value of the National Bibliographic Knowledgebase (NBK), and puts in place a transparent, fairer and potentially more sustainable charging framework for the use of OCLC’s WorldCat Participation and Cataloguing services.
