Tim, Worrying about what OCLC agents are saying is almost a waste of time. They do not get it and they never will. Look at the sloppiness of the code and architecture of their pre-eminent software such as Illiad or Content dm. Initially good products mucked up with poor design base and porrer coding. There are many bugs which they will probably never fix. He probably would criticize open source software as not maintainable in the long haul also.
This of courese from an organization whose two main purpose appear to be 1 - Making Money and 2 - Exercising monopolistic control to equal Microshit products. He should get in and help instead of casting self-engrandizing brickbats. Gerry > 1. Well, it's not his personal blog, but something he's presumably > paid to write by a magazine, but yes, "post" or "piece" would have > been better. > > 2. It is a fair question. It needs to be solved. > > 3. Fair enough. Given how much energy OCLC expends worrying about Open > Library, I don't think he could be unaware of the implication. > > Tim > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Peter Murray <[email protected]> wrote: >> Tim -- >> >> My perspective: >> >> 1) The "LJ article" is a blog post on Roy Tennant's blog. It is >> an opinion piece, not a journalistic article. >> >> 2) He asks a good question. So what is up with the currency of >> content appearing on the Wayback Machine? >> >> 3) I disagree that the "unstated target" is Open Library. I >> could have written the same blog post. (I'd been meaning to >> write a similar post.) Roy is pretty much a straight shooter; >> if his intended target had been Open Library, I think he would >> have come out and said so. >> >> >> Peter >> >> On Apr 21, 2010, at 9:39 PM, Tim Spalding wrote: >>> >>> Roy Tennant just wrote an article about the Wayback Machine's currency. >>> >>> http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/190054019.html >>> >>> Tennant's doubt about whether the IA can maintain things "over the >>> long haul" has a sharp if unstated target—Open Library. He works for >>> OCLC and is one of it's principle public defenders. You can bet your >>> bottom dollar he'll use this against IA in the future, in support of >>> OCLC's contention that only it should have custodianship of library >>> data. >>> >>> Someone should get back to him. >>> >>> Tim >> >> >> -- >> Peter Murray http://dltj.org/about/ >> Assistant Director, New Service Development tel:+1-614-485-6725 >> OhioLINK: the Ohio Library and Information Network Columbus, Ohio >> The Disruptive Library Technology Jester http://dltj.org/ >> Attrib-Noncomm-Share http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ >> This email may be digitally signed (PGP.sig) http://dltj.org/pgp-email/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ol-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to >> [email protected] >> >> > > > > -- > Check out my library at http://www.librarything.com/profile/timspalding > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] > -- Gerard Arthus Systems Administrator: Long Island library Resources Council 627 N. Sunrise Service Road Medford, New York USA 11713 Office: 631-675-1570 ext 209 Fax: 631-675-1573 Home: 631-289-7565 Cell: 631-335-5250 Professor: Graduate Computer Science/Engineering Management Program Long Island University/CW Post Campus 720 Northern Boulevard Brookville, New York 11548-1300 _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
