The new ShelfLife didn't have any stories this week particularly relevant to RedLightGreen. Cliff Lynch's interview points to a disticntion between digital library services and digital library collections. It reflects the direction the DLF is going with DODL -- a large joint collection with standardized access point so that the services can be built on top. It also points to OAI, as OAI offers a way to build services over disparate collections.
One of our blue-sky plans for RedLightGreen is to add harvested OAI records to the union catalog data.
The Semantic Web article is yet another 3000 foot overview.
(read more for the table of contents of this week's edition)
ShelfLife, No. 118 (August 7 2003) ISSN 1538-4284
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CONTENTS
The Library of the Future
Keep Your Standards High
Standing Up Against the Patriot Act
Two Library Test Projects Making Progress
The Promise of the Semantic Web
When Digitizing Content, Always Keep the Originals
XML: Extremely Confusing?
New Standards for Antitrust Review Urged
Harvard Law Library Digitizing Nazi War Crimes Documents
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