17.08.2011 11:56, Alexander Johannesen:
> ... I've got only one
> comment which really is something I'd like to make a bit clearer even
> if it's intertwined into most of the stuff you list ;
>
> * Persistent Identification Management
The single most important component for extensible
and sustainable services, surely. Just who's gonna care
for, and can be trusted with, those identifiers.
VIAF might become a springboard for many things, conceivably.
But there needs to be an open platform, integrable into anything
that can use web services.
> ... this is the one area
> which the commercial world suck at, it is desperately needed both now
> and especially for the future, and I suspect one of the things
> librarians would excel at, ...
right! Indispensable for building all sorts of higher-level
functions relying on library resources.
> The Next Generation Catalog should be a global Knowledge Management
> system
What we manage is actually *recorded knowledge* or *knowledge
related resources*, not the stuff itself. Libraries should
provide infrastructure that supports the economy of intellectual
and artistic work. This work has long since been more or
less globalized, so library work needs to be as well.
B.Eversberg
Received on Wed Aug 17 2011 - 06:30:45 EDT