David CoombeNLA cancelling @wragge’s #Trove API key is mean and stupid. This is NLA’s “not invented here” chip on their shoulder.
Over many years I’ve been a big fan of Trove and then (maybe?) its regular critic. Not being part of the Trove-GLAM industry meant I had more freedom to criticise. Not because I enjoy criticising but because after Tim left it cared more about its reputation than about its users. Spin won out over diligence. Quantity over quality.
I wrote about #FundTrove presented as grassroots but really being a masked industry campaign. Recently I mentioned Trove budget’s double-dipping.
But people can’t keep “loving” Trove that takes them for granted. They can’t care forever.
See also #TroveAU #NationalLibraryAU and elsewhere and elsewhen at @coombeidau
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Mike Jones