> I'm an interface guy, so I tend to think that the problems (and solutions) we face in libraries are largely
> about the systems and interfaces, not the underlying data.
Certainly. But to be quite clear, I believe that the underlying data most definitely constrains what we can do with our interfaces, and can and does limit what interfaces we can provide.
But David is QUITE right that we can often be succesful _in spite_ of bad underlying data, AND that there are areas we can be succesful in that sidestep the data entirely and don't have to do with the data.
I still think we've got to get our act together around the data. But rumors of the death of the library have been greatly exagerated, that's for sure.
Received on Tue May 05 2009 - 20:36:35 EDT