On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Eric Hellman wrote: > I posted some comments in Web4Lib on this- but on code4lib, I'd like > to be a bit more provocative and get y'all bothered. > > * What online resources would you collect?
Information of interest to the community we serve. > * How would you connect people to these new collections? Federated search > * How will you control and manage these services? Registry of metadata describing the holdings of each member of the federation** > * How will you provide your users with the most correct information possible? Send each request to the authoritative source, rather than attempt to mirror / cache data. Provide a mechanism for the community to complain and/or annotate the information. ** I don't work in bibliographical records, but in scientific data. Therefore, we can easily track each archive by which instrument's data they contain, and general observing parameters of the instruments. > >We are looking for the first 50 participants who are willing to > >visualize a library not focused solely on print resource management and > >willing to go out on a limb and conceptualize the library which is > >focused on user access and management of online resources & services. Um ... I don't focus on print resources, as I don't have any. However, I don't know if I count as a 'library', either. ----- Joe Hourcle