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Online Database Count

Page history last edited by Kim Miller 12 years, 2 months ago

Original Question (11/2/11):

 

Bruce Pomerantz (MN)

 

A library licenses the online language learner product Power Speak.

 

Does this count as a database?

 

Do we need to create an online self-instruction category?

 

Stop the World, I want to get Off!!!

 

 

SDC Comments:

 

Ann Reed (OR)

 

LOL. A database is pieces of information retrieved with a common interface. The individual pieces cannot stand along. Yes, Power Speak is a database.

 

 

Bruce Pomerantz (MN)

 

The note included with the database definition states, “The data or records are usually collected with a particular intent and relate to a defined topic.”

 

I don’t consider Overdrive as having a particular intent or narrowed in its scope to a defined topic. However, we have the weasel word “usually” in the definition. Are you counting Overdrive as a database if a library subscribes?

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