The latest (and last*, at least for now) edition of the Library Gang 2.0 podcast has hit the web. You can access it at the bottom of this blog post or as many of you already do via iTunes or an RSS/Podcast feed.
The program discusses that over the past couple of years we've seen the "beginnings" of "possible change" in the bibliographic record supply. Open Library (Main Interface ||| Beta Interface); LibLime'd ‡biblios.net and Sky River are three examples.
Plus, as the blog post correctly points out:
All this has been happening against the background of OCLC going through very public issues around its record reuse policy.
The Library Gang discussion is hosted (as always) by Richard Wallis the well-know tech evangelist from Talis along with Oren Beit-Arie, CTO, exLibris.
He writes that the next Library Gang will be his last. Wallis also makes this announcement on the podcast.
Because of my increasing evangelism commitments around rapidly developing technologies such as Linked Data and the Semantic Web, I cannot continue to give the focus to the Gang, and the topics it covers, that it deserves.
He continues on to say that:
There are no fixed plans as to if and how the Gang will continue after then.
Both Talis and I [Richard] will be happy to support any initiative to continue the Gang and its reputation for relevant, topical, open, and often fun, discussion of libraries and the technologies that influence them.
It's ONLY a guess, but we have a feeling that soon word will received that The Library Gang will continue.
Congrats on creating, producing, and hosting a great podcast Richard.
We wish you the very best and because your evangelism duties are increasing it's likely that many of us will be seeing and hearing you speak at a conference or another type of gathering very soon.
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