Digital Libraries
Danger, Will Robinson!
If you were to go into my Outlook mail box(es), you would be lost with little hope of finding your way back. I don’t know what I use for organizational categories and I rarely plan it out. Generally, I use what comes to mind. The reasons for all this chaos is that I rarely think about a repository for my own reuse – I have search engines for that. I… Read More »Danger, Will Robinson!
The Burden of Proof
My daughter says that Richard Scarry was scary. My wife loves this song. I have proof now that she is not crazy and that this song is real. You never know what you will find in the library.
If you don’t write it down, it will never happen
Last week, the blog post was about adages, and how they represent lessons learned. This week, after reading about codification and economics, I’m looking at how people encode knowledge. This week’s articles (see Bibliography, below) have returned to the idea of somehow encoding knowledge; which, because we are all unique individuals, ultimately become unique knowledge as it combines with our own set of tacit knowledge that we have. In treating… Read More »If you don’t write it down, it will never happen
Spieglein, spieglein an der wand… wer ist die Schönste im ganzen Land?
Today’s post could rightly be called a reflection. I’ve been spouting off about big data, documenting it all, tacit knowledge (that stuff that everyone knows but no one writes down), web technologies, etc., etc., etc. So naturally in the Knowledge Management class we have to read and review a few articles from the syllabus (pick two from column* A, one from column B). Today’s aggregated postings have articles about wikis,… Read More »Spieglein, spieglein an der wand… wer ist die Schönste im ganzen Land?
The bishop’s mitre
Xie and Matusiak introduce several different definitions of digital libraries in their book, Discover Digital Libraries: Theory and Practice. One of the most workable definitions of a digital library I found was the one by (Bishop, et al., 2003) that digital libraries are “sociotechnical systems – networks of technology, information, documents, people, and practices”. Like others in my LIS 658 class, I relate strongly to the Bishop definition. I work at… Read More »The bishop’s mitre