Here's a great op-ed piece by Joe Esposito at the Scholarly Kitchen blog:
Esposito, Joe. Let’s Hear It for Reckless Enthusiasm! January 1, 2010.
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/01/01/lets-hear-it-for-reckless-enthusiasm/
The final paragraph of this essay ties in nicely with the purpose of NGC4LIB:
"And this prompts my personal reckless enthusiasm: to build infrastructure that enables an unmediated, direct connection between scholars and scholarly materials. For example, there is a huge need for a new order of bibliographical records, which are transparent to end-users and easily integrated into machine-to-machine communications. Such records will be very expensive to create; no one knows how they will ultimately earn their keep. But then I think of these telco executives shaking their heads and saying, Where is the programming going to come from? It will be there."
Bernie Sloan
Received on Sun Jan 03 2010 - 20:13:38 EST