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This is costly when metadata needs to be changed in many local records across thousands of libraries; if metadata were in a centralized database and linked to by library records, however, the vocabulary changes would only need to occur in one place, thus saving costs in the long run.
Perhaps if this was broadened to talk about the fact that we share metadata within our supply chain, for lack of a better phrase (publishers, indexing and abstracting services, etc), but not frequently with organizations outside of the traditional information world.
I don't think this heading is entirely clear. Meaning that standards should also be considered as something that should last a long time? That standards take a long time to be developed? That we need to start thinking about how to preserve digital objects and web-based objects with new standards?
I think linked data solves a fairly large need which tends to be overlooked: Making library metadata interoperable with the rest of the web, and with other networked information. I don't necessarily think this is a situation where an application is going to pop up that makes people see its usefulness, but one where these ideas need to be taken into consideration when we think about how to reconstruct bibliographic metadata. How do we implement these ideas as we re-work (or get rid of) MARC?
"since it uses HTTP, the Web's standard retrieval protocol." - Just noting a typo, in the lack of the possessive apostrophe. Please excuse me if this is out of scope.