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I am really hoping we get the chance to use XML, for real. I’ve used HTML, but all of this reading about XML and schemas and stuff is not nearly hands-on enough for me to internalize any of it. It looks HTML-like, and it’s all readable, I guess, but I’m…
(This isn’t part of my essay, but I like to state my biases: I work in an engineering and science library, and the journal costs are debilitating. I also signed away rights to papers I wrote as an engineer and regret it.) Changes in scholarly communication–particularly in scholarly publishing–are challenging…
From Border Crossings (which I rather liked, in the sense that I’d like to sit down and chat with the author over a beer, despite the article’s constant references to things I knew nothing about), “The answer [to the problem of metadata creation by untrained users] is that almost nobody…
It occurs to me that I never posted my schedule. It also occurs to me that, by doing so now, I am pretty much forcing it to change. I’m OK with that. Monday – In Oakland 12-6. Homework for Tuesday thereafter. Tuesday – In Oakland 10-3 and 6-9, usually doing…
Q: Historically, librarians have served as custodians of recorded knowledge and gatekeepers to information resources. To what extent has the rise of networked information services begun to change the roles that librarians play? What other factors, if any, are contributing to changes in the roles of librarians? A1: Before the…
I don’t have a muddiest point this week, beyond the question of whether we can use Picasa instead of Flickr, which has already been asked. It probably doesn’t matter, since 5 pictures and 5 thumbnails is hardly a giant amount of information, but my Flickr account is getting full; pictures…
Any readers who follow New Basement Tapes will have already seen this, or at least the headline. I think it’s important to spread this information far and wide, though, so I hope people will forgive me for the repeat: A UN agency is drafting a “trackback” standard, to remove anonymity…