http://remainingrelevant.net/remaining/174 Why stop dreaming when you wake up? Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:29:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://remainingrelevant.net/remaining/174/comment-page-1#comment-2686 Remaining Relevant » Blog Archive » Open Data is not the point | One Big Library. Sat, 23 Dec 2006 15:29:45 +0000 http://localhost/remainingrelevant/?p=174#comment-2686 [...] Thanks to Art for his thoughtful comment on Dan Chudnov’s post last week. Art says it far better than I: I really believe that humanity’s ability to share information and narratives is a large part of the metric for any progress in the future, and I think your vision would enable this in ways that would make many of the current technology initiatives in libraries seem small in retrospect. But I do think that there is a disconnect between the mechanisms built by libraries for fostering sharing and the need to extend the reach of these structures globally. [...] [...] Thanks to Art for his thoughtful comment on Dan Chudnov’s post last week. Art says it far better than I: I really believe that humanity’s ability to share information and narratives is a large part of the metric for any progress in the future, and I think your vision would enable this in ways that would make many of the current technology initiatives in libraries seem small in retrospect. But I do think that there is a disconnect between the mechanisms built by libraries for fostering sharing and the need to extend the reach of these structures globally. [...]

]]> http://remainingrelevant.net/remaining/174/comment-page-1#comment-2685 thesecretmirror.com » Blog Archive » Is Open Data the Point? Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:00:22 +0000 http://localhost/remainingrelevant/?p=174#comment-2685 [...] I wonder how interesting all the bibliographic data of LC is to begin with. What’s in the dump paid for by the Mellon Award money? I’d guess monographs and serials, and probably audiovisual materials. What about archival records? What would anyone do with those? Those won’t be interesting to the small libraries that could benefit the most from this altruistic move, and in fact I believe that the biggest problem other than maintaining the records for changes will be separating the wheat from the chaff, which is ultimately and institutional (departmental, consortial, individual …) decision. I’d love a dump of all the archival records, but I don’t know what I’d do with them all; it’s much easier for me to wade through them using their OPAC for the time being when I do institutional surveys. [...] [...] I wonder how interesting all the bibliographic data of LC is to begin with. What’s in the dump paid for by the Mellon Award money? I’d guess monographs and serials, and probably audiovisual materials. What about archival records? What would anyone do with those? Those won’t be interesting to the small libraries that could benefit the most from this altruistic move, and in fact I believe that the biggest problem other than maintaining the records for changes will be separating the wheat from the chaff, which is ultimately and institutional (departmental, consortial, individual …) decision. I’d love a dump of all the archival records, but I don’t know what I’d do with them all; it’s much easier for me to wade through them using their OPAC for the time being when I do institutional surveys. [...]

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