The (Digital) Library Environment: 10 years after
Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published.
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Systems
Doing things with software and data.
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Evergreen and Pines
There is a lot of buzz around Evergreen: there is excitement about an open
source integrated library system. There is
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Let me be open with you ...
‘open’ is a word that usually needs to be qualified to be of any use in our
conversations. Simply standing
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Personal reference collections as digital libraries
We will see much more activity connecting user environments and bibliographic
resources. I am thinking of citation managers, reading lists,
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Registries, referrals, resolutions
I have written before [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001105.html] about
how registries provide ‘intelligence’ in the network.
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FRBR and Learning Objects (FLOR?)
Phil Barker [https://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/philb/] looks at FRBR in the context of
learning object metadata.
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Library process automation: the ecology of providers
Just as I began to see messages about the publication of Marshall Breeding’s
report on his survey [https://www.
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QOTD: the bibliographic archipelago
Our bibliographic systems are like an archipelago. Scattered islands which need
to be visited individually. In this context I was
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Cataloging and standards
Bob Wolven has an interesting piece in netConnect about cataloging. He mentions
our approach to standards, among other things.
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On the record: report of the LC working group on the future of bibliographic control
The final report of the LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control
has been submitted and is now
To 'extract, transform and load' or to federate
One of the major questions for library systems is the role of metasearch or
federation. I have written about this
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Web-Scale development: "the data center is the computer"
More computing is happening in the cloud. Personal and corporate applications
are being sourced from network based services. ‘cloud’ is
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