Panlibus: take your data with you - latches onto a debate about opening up access to MARC records. The comments in Code4Lib are very interesting:

"My suggestion for an even better scenario: A person grabs a book off the shelf, and enters the ISBN into an application they use for dealing with
books. (LibraryThing, Desktop home cataloging software, professional cataloging software (!), firefox extension, local library web page, or the OpenFRBR web site itself). The application contacts OpenFRBR behind the scenes and checks all available...."

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