04. Allow Physical Union Catalogue to publish data

A union catalogue publishes bibliographic records as open data on behalf of its contributing libraries.

Description

Activity - The supply under open license of bibliographic records from a union catalogue on behalf of its contributing libraries. The open licensing and the open supply of records are undertaken by the union catalogue service. Compare with the variant approaches of UC3 and UC5.
This use case differs from UC3 because it is about the union catalogue organizing open licensing whereas UC3 is about the source library initiating the licensing.
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Actors - Libraries, the union catalogue, third parties
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Benefits

Institution - Supporting scholarship beyond the institution, without needing to invest in local systems and support; the records are supplied in the existing manner to the union catalogue service.
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Researchers - Increasing flexibility and choice in accessing institutional services, as third parties construct services on the data
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Students - Increasing flexibility and choice in accessing institutional services, as third parties construct services on the data
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Motivation

Principles - Improved access through discoverability of own resources and access to resources held by partner institutions. Making bibliographic data open for re-use increases those opportunities both within and beyond the Union Catalogue service.
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Costs - Reduces the costs for providers and consumers; rather than dealing with individual member libraries, the license and supply relationship is with the union catalogue provider.
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Services - By making data available in ways that users prefer, usage and satisfaction may rise.
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Rationale for not doing it - Individual institutions may prefer to retain a degree of control over the ways in which their data are exposed to third parties. The union catalogue may not wish to absorb poorly understood liabilities on behalf of contributing libraries.
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Costs

Setup - As institutions are simply granting a set of additional permissions to a union catalogue service with which they are already associated, there are unlikely to be additional setup costs. Depending upon the nature of the data to be shared, and the form of any existing contractual relationship, there may be a need for some legal costs.
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Ongoing - As institutions are simply granting a set of additional permissions to a union catalogue service with which they are already associated, there are no additional ongoing costs.
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Cost of doing nothing - None
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