I am a cynic and a skeptic and a pessimist, and I’m aware of it. So it’s no surprise to me–and if you’ve been reading for long, probably not to you, either–that I have very little hope for the URN or DOI idea ever really working out. (That is, the…
I probably have nothing deep or thought-provoking to say today. It’s lovely out here, on the Mall or the Cut–whatever CMU calls the area between the UC and Purnell–and the drama students are providing me with immense entertainment. I like this almost autumn-like weather; my energy level is highest at…
Overall themes: interoperability, modularity. A Framework for Building Open Digital Libraries has me totally sold on the ODL concept and on the extension of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI_PMH) to build every future Digital Library ever. I think it’s a great idea; interoperability is a desirable…
Now that I’ve been to all of my classes once–and work a few times–I have some thoughts to post. First off, let me just say, for the sake of any engineers who come to this blog wanting to find out about switching into Library Science, it is wonderful to know,…