Relying on Venders
Much of the technical expertise in the library community is
concentrated in the small number of vendors who provide the
systems and software that run library management functions as
well as the user discovery service — systems which
integrate bibliographic data with library management
functions such as acquisitions, user data, and circulation.
Thus libraries rely on these vendors and their technology
development plans, rather than on their own initiative, when
they want to adopt Linked Data at a production scale.
Linked Data in
Libraries
Ebsco Discovery Service: $30(5),000 per year Primo: $40,000
Summon: $50,000