Dan,
I agree that libraries have played a special part in the evolution of
many standards directly or indirectly related to the Web. But, there's
always more to do. You and others might want to check out a new W3C
Incubator Group in this area http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/
Incubators don't produce standards, they report on what standards work
needs to be done. At least please join the public mailing list!
Cheers
Phil.
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Phil Archer
W3C Mobile Web Initiative
http://www.w3.org/Mobile
http://philarcher.org
Dan Webb wrote:
Andrew wrote:
(and perhaps that librarians are a bit slow to upgrade ;)
And then tee wrote:
I think it's more to do with the fact that librarians are always getting
hand-me-down hardware :)
That is indeed often the case. And it's not only that. If given a
choice of buying 3 or 4 new books for the researchers and clinicians,
or buying library staff a shiny new computer when the one they have
can clunk along just fine for another year ... well, it's a simple
choice. Budgetry constraints hit libraries hard.
And while I'm here, I'll point out that librarians happen to be quite
early adopters of new technologies and web trends, and have been since
the days of ARPANET. Libraries have been quick to embrace all kinds of
services (Facebook, Twitter, SMS) to push information out to and
connect with their patrons.
It's thanks to advice from librarians that, from the time I put my
hand up and told my boss "yea, I can make you a website", and then
wonderened how the heck to do it, I headed down the Web Standards
path.
They're generelly pretty technologically aware, and do the best with
what they have.
dan.
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