Ok, so I really like the idea of Digital Libraries, especially when it makes the publishers of over-priced electronic journals nervous. It was fascinating to read about the collaboration between librarians and computer scientists on DLI and the subsequent UI Testbed which provided publishers with the opportunity to eventually take advantage of the very organizations that made their new ejournals possible. I was also unaware that this federal grant was also responsible for the spinoff product...google. The possibilities are fascinating. I followed the link to the Dutch university open access policies. It will be interesting to see what, if any, US institutions follow suit.
What I found disturbing, however, was the following sentence, "The DLI proposals had architected what looked like a reasonably comfortable nest....." Why not use "build" or "construct" both of these are perfectly good verbs just sitting around waiting to be used.
The Institutional Repositories concept offers an intriguing opportunity for universities to fully utilize their scholarly resources. It would certainly assist in making digital scholarship more acceptable, as long as the administration doesn't overstep its bounds....
4 comments:
yikes, that "architected" business is some ugly language.
spell check is in open revolt, although I wouldn't be surprised if its a bonofide neologism of the LIS world. What I privately term as "LISlang" and what saner people just ignore, because its silly. Although certain LIS types say these things extensively to make themselves sound hip and with it!
Who knows, maybe we will hear "architected" Thursday afternoon, between the blasts of piercing electronic noise and other failures of equipment and morale. should be fun either way...
I'm glad I came across your blog for this week's comments since I had totally missed that the federal grant was responsible for google. And where would we be without google? Thanks for bringing that up.
Excellent visual aid with C & H !!!
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