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December 12, 2005

RLG & Talis join up

RedLightGreen and Talis have partnered up.  They're sharing the "find it at a library" data directory and they point out that participation in this open library project, unlike Open WorldCat, does not require that the library be a FirstSearch subscriber and pays to put their records into the database.  Libraries are included, for free (free, I say it again) in RLG's "find it" database.  I've found RLG's database to be smaller in terms of titles, but with a better interface, better authority control, FRBRization (which is awesome), a faster search engine, and more features.  Can't we have the best of all worlds in one product?

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Yes, I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. I thought long and hard about what wording to use in the post, but the post from RLG itself on Hanging Together wasn't all that clear on exactly what the partnership entailed. I was a bit confused myself. Thanks for clarifying Walt!

Posted by: Sarah Houghton (LiB) | December13, 2005

I think it's better to say that RLG has a project with Talis, since RedLightGreen is just a service.

Also, for what it's worth, it's tricky to compare RedLightGreen with WorldCat as a database; RedLightGreen is based on a subset of the RLG Union Catalog, which has about 48 million titles...

One minor problem with "product" is "revenue," but let's not get into that at the moment...

Posted by: walt | December13, 2005

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