Several posts ago [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000505.html], I suggested that on the network everything is a

I ran across several apparently unrelated things recently: * The Wall St Journal reports that Ray Charles’ Genius loves company [https:

Writing about intrastructure [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000505.html] below, I suggested that a large gap in our

We have turned off commenting in the light of heavy spam traffic in the last couple of weeks. Hope to

The University of Southampton Library reports on a survey of its staff about their research support needs. > Working through

My colleagues describe an approach to managing metadata crosswalks in the current issue of D-Lib Magazine. > This paper proposes

Brian Nielsen gave a nice presentation [https://www.cni.org/tfms/2004b.fall/abstracts/PB-bibliographic-nielsen.html] about the use of

Walter Benjamin famously asserted [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=walter+benjamin] that “that which withers in the age of

Further to my note on standards [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000507.html] below, Jon Udell has some interesting

As more activity enters a network space, the need for well-understood approaches to data and service interchange increases. This has

Pride and prejudice tops fiction list: > Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s salty-tongued commentary on the plight of women

Services have emerged which help 'stitch' other services together in ways that map onto user needs. Examples are RSS, toolbars, and extensions. I call these 'intrastructure' here, and discuss their use.