[CODE4LIB] DLF Aquifer Metadata Working Group Lessons Learned report available

2009-05-03 Thread Riley, Jenn
The DLF Aquifer Metadata Working Group is proud to release a brief report summarizing our Working Group's activities through the life of the DLF Aquifer initiative, reflecting on the impact and effectiveness of these activities, and suggesting some directions future similar initiatives might

Re: [CODE4LIB] One Data Format Identifier (and Registry) to Rule Them All

2009-05-03 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
The new URI may be unavoidable to resolve the present situation, especially realizing that current attempted solutions do not deal with verioning succesfully, as Jenn Riley notes through experience. What is the current state of the art for dealing with versioning in URIs, with having URIs

Re: [CODE4LIB] One Data Format Identifier (and Registry) to Rule Them All

2009-05-03 Thread Alexander Johannesen
With Topic Maps it's been solved years and years ago, and it's the part of it that the RDF world didn't think of until recently (and applied their kludges). I'm not going to bang my gong on this, just urge you to read up on PSIs. Alex --

[CODE4LIB] Another nail in the coffin

2009-05-03 Thread Alexander Johannesen
Another nail in the library coffin, especially the academic ones ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TIOH80Qg7Q Organisations and people are slowly turning into data producers, not book producers. Alex -- --- Project