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# Weibel lines
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/weibel-lines/
- Published: 2005-08-08T22:53:53.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T21:04:55.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: #MPOW, Systems

My colleague Stu Weibel contributed a [nice retrospective on metadata](https://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/weibel/07weibel.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net) to the recent ten year anniversary issue of [D-Lib Magazine](https://www.dlib.org/?ref=lorcandempsey.net). Apt, as the [Dublin Core Metadata Initiative](https://www.dublincore.org/?ref=lorcandempsey.net) with which Stu has been so strongly associated also celebrated its tenth birthday earlier this year.  
Readers might also be interested to know that Stu has started [Weibel Lines](https://weibel-lines.typepad.com/?ref=lorcandempsey.net), his own *opinion cache* on the web.  
From Stu:

> As we try to foment change and react to it at once, we are like Escher’s Hands – designing the future as it, in turn, designs us… except that there are often implements other than pencils in those hands. Ever try explaining what you do for a living to your mother? In the Internet standards arena, conveying an appropriate balance of glee, terror, satisfaction, frustration, and pure wonder is no easy task. I just tell her I’m not a real librarian, but I play one on the Internet. It seems enough. \[[Border Crossings: Reflections on a Decade of Metadata Consensus Building](https://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/weibel/07weibel.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]