On 11/14/2012 4:25 AM, James Weinheimer wrote:
> Karen's example of including the local
> holdings is interesting, but it can be done in a variety of ways,
> including browser add-ons.
Are you serious? Yes, it can be done in a variety of ways. The way you
are suggesting is the way that will basically zero impact, nobody's
going to install browser plugins, and many currently popular browsers
(including much of mobile!) don't support plugins.
While there are many ways to share our data in a way that can be used by
other apps, not just "linked data"/RDF (and Karen is saying this lately
too) -- only ways that actually do THAT are going to be meaningful.
Browser plugins, really?
I think we are in fact doomed, and catalogers and libraries will be
irreelvant and possibly not even exist in ~15 years. The problem is our
community is completely incapable of understanding, let alone acting
upon, what actually must be done to keep our metadata practices relevant
and useful. Browser plugins?
Received on Wed Nov 14 2012 - 10:42:41 EST