On 8/28/07, Bernhard Eversberg <ev_at_biblio.tu-bs.de> wrote:
> But the real world needs to change first to allow this to happen.
I no longer understand where you're going with this. Yes, of course
these changes need to happen in the real world; that's why we're
talking about it, and that's what this mailing-list is all about.
> Don't get me wrong, I agree with most anything you are saying,
> but lots of it is pipedreams right now, to a much larger extent
> than you seem to realize.
Oh no, I fully understand where the reality of this is ;
http://shelter.nu/blog/2007/08/resignation.html
...
> understood. Present your concrete idea for this, something to
> look at, present an alpha version of a functioning model for a start
> or to pluck apart.
Talked about this for ages, suggested, hinted, showed and given up on
it. It's not going to happen, and we all know it. It's fun to talk
about alternatives, though, but after a while you get so depressed by
it because you ultimately know it's not going anywhere.
> The models
> and semantics, however, that have been presented so far are
> obviously either not convincing enough in themselves or couldn't
> make their way into convincingly operable designs.
I think things presented here most of the time never gets heard properly.
> Or else we'd
> already have the overwhelming success of an XML based bibliographic
> engine that blasts all legacy designs aside.
No, that's rubbish, and just the fact that I have to somewhat defend
one of modern technologies biggest success stories from a bunch of
librarians is, at best, comical.
> I'm not saying it is
> impossible to construct one based on XML, but I'm not enthusiastic
> either.
And hence I bid you farewell. :)
Regards,
Alex
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