Wednesday, January 22, 2003

Standards -- Why we don't Want It One Standard For All: Why We Don’t Want It,  Why We Don’t Need It Stephen Downes National Research Council January 17, 2003 9:53:21 PM    comment [] Googlert. This service uses Google to keep track of what the web is saying about you (or your product, or your pet cat). It took me about five minutes to sign up and then the daily emails started coming. Now nobody can refer to my work without me knowing about it. Is this good? The jury is still out. By Various Authors, Googlert, January, 2003 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 3:28:36 PM    comment [] Where Next for RSS?. Not exactly in-depth, this article nonetheless highlights some major (and not so major) issues facing the content syndication community: machine-specific aggregators, the choice of reading software, the traffic problem, the media-type problem and the business model problem. By Tim Bray, Textuality, January, 2003 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 3:28:04 PM    comment [] The latest OCLC Newsletter has an article "OCLC Research Projects" There is an interesting set of projects, the Metadata Switch an umbrella activity for a set of projects which are constructing experimental modular services that add value to metadata. A partial listing of such services includes: harvesting metadata 'fusion' of metadata from different sources schema transformation enrichment or augmentation of records with various types of data terminology and name authority services We will also be testing how to expose this functionality as 'web services', modular web-based machine-to-machine applications which can be combined in various ways. The OCLC Research Projects page also offers open source tools, four projects concerned with FRBR, and many others. [Catalogablog] 3:26:24 PM    comment []

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