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[CurrentCites] Current Cites, July 2005
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy Tennant)
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Current Cites
July 2005
http://lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/2005/cc05.16.7.html
Edited by [2]Roy Tennant
Contributors: [3]Charles W. Bailey, Jr., [4]Shirl Kennedy, [5]Roy
Tennant
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"[6]Tenth Anniversary Issue" [7]D-Lib Magazine 11(7/8)(July/August
2005)(http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/07contents.html). - This
anniversary issue celebrates ten years of publication. From its
[8]first issue, D-Lib Magazine has been a key resource for those
interested in digital library technologies and techniques. One of
the
strengths of the magazine has been its ability to attract important,
useful articles from both the computer science and library science
communities, and therefore serve as a common meeting ground where we
can collaborate to further our common goals. As an example, even the
first issue mixed an article on metadata from a librarian (Stu
Weibel
from OCLC) with an article on digital library architectures from a
computer scientist (Bill Arms from Cornell). The anniversary issue
appropriately inludes pieces from those two contributors as well
as a
number of other leading lights from both disciplines. Current Cites
salutes the D-Lib Magazine anniversary, in particular since pieces
from that source are cited frequently in our own publication. May
D-Lib Magazine have many, many good years ahead. - [9]RT
Dietz, Roland, and Carl Grant. "[10]The Dis-Integrating World of
Library Automation" [11]Library Journal (15 June
2005)(http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA606392.html). - Dietz and
Grant are by no means the first to advocate busting apart the
integrated library system into interoperable components. Andrew Pace
(in his [12]February 1, 2004 Library Journal cover article) has
certainly said as much, as have others. But what makes this piece so
ground-breaking is that it is written by two leaders of library
systems companies. In other words, these are the very folks with the
power to put what they say into play. Skeptics may say they want to
see them "put their money where their mouth is," but if so Dietz and
Grant can point to the [13]Vendor Initiative for Enabling Web
Services
(VIEWS) as evidence that they are serious. - [14]RT
Gardner, Susannah. "[15]Time to Check: Are You Using the Right
Blogging Tool?" [16]Online Journalism Review (14 July
2005)(http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050714gardner/). - Blog we
must,
but how? And what's a trackback, anyway? Try this handy analysis of
major blogging software, complete with a blogging terminology guide.
Not to be missed is the link to the detailed "Blog software
comparison
chart." Before you know it you'll be moblogging and using
bookmarklets. - [17]CB
Mills, Elinor. "[18]In Canada: Cache a Page, Go to Jail?" [19]CNET
News.com (19 July
2005)(http://news.com.com/In+Canada+Cache+a+page%2C+go+to+jail/
2100-10
28_3-5793659.html?tag=cd.top). - Is it the beginning of the end for
search engines? In Canada, a bill under consideration (Bill C-60)
appears to make the storage and provision of crawled Web pages
illegal. According to copyright attorney Howard Knopf: "The way it
reads, arguably what they're saying is that the very act of making a
reproduction by way of caching is illegal." Search engines could
face
a legal environment where they could be much more easily sued unless
Web pages were removed whenever copyright holders requested it. Of
course, this potential law has generated quite a buzz. A [20]posting
on Traffick takes a calmer view and provides a link to an
analysis of
the situation by Eric Goldman. It's worth a look. - [21]CB
Quint, Barbara. "[22]OCLC Pilots Traditional Libraries into Web
Services" [23]NewsBreaks (5 July
2005)(http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb050705-2.shtml). - We
all
know that many of our users are using Google for what they formerly
used their local library to accomplish. And if they fail in Google,
they may not think to fall back on us. So what to do? The best thing
may be to meet them where they are -- in Google. But how? It clearly
takes a big play, which no single library is really equipped to do.
Enter OCLC. Their [24]Open WorldCat program makes it possible for
Google and Yahoo users to discover library materials in their search
results. But as Barbara Quint reports in this article, OCLC sees
that
as merely the wedge into a wide array of library-based services.
Having noted that some of the inquiries they were getting from users
were reference questions and others were requests to buy the book,
OCLC is now moving to serve those needs and still others as well.
The
end result for us is likely seeing some of the users we lost with
the
advent of Google being redirected back to us from Google when
appropriate. Wouldn't that be nice. - [25]RT
Talbot, David. "[26]The Fading Memory of the State" [27]Technology
Review (July
2005)(http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/07/issue/
feature_mem
ory.asp). - The [28]National Archives and Records Administration
(NARA) has a big problem. Because "(e)lectronic records rot much
faster than paper ones," NARA has got to quickly develop a way of
saving the "tsunami" of contemporary digital government records. "It
is confronting thousands of incompatible data formats cooked up
by the
computer industry over the past several decades, not to mention the
limited lifespan of electronic storage media themselves." The
Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and other core
documents, "written on durable calfskin parchment," live in sealed
glass cases, immersed in protective argon gas. NARA has hired two
contractors, Harris Corporation and Lockheed Martin, to come up
with a
similar durable means of storage for digital records. A secondary
issue is that many electronic records are simply not being
retained in
the first place. Organizations in the private sector are, of course,
facing similar crises, but the sheer size and scope of NARA's
situation is a problem of unimaginable complexity. And because the
agency has no good system for absorbing more data, a staggering
backlog of electronic records hangs in limbo at countless federal
agencies. This article talks about research efforts and potential
solutions to NARA's situation. - [29]SK
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