Category: engineering

[2670] Week 2 Reading Responses

Published on September 6, 2008

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…

First Week of Classes, Complete!

Published on August 29, 2008

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,…