There is too much information available today, from Google to blogs. The death of reading, though, is overblown. The key is media literacy. People should teach media literacy in schools to help.
We believe that dedicating data to the public domain is the best way to ensure that data is universally reusable and remixable. When data is public domain it means that it can be reused automatically without needing to check terms and conditions or track the source of every statement to provide attribution. These kinds of things act as friction to reuse, wasting energy that could be better spent creating inspiring things.
DIGITAL HUMANITIES is already a vast and multi-faceted field, and during our week in Taos we will only be scratching the surface of the surface. Our primary orientation will not be procedural in nature, that is how to use specific software or complete particular tasks, but rather directed toward gaining a broad overview of the many different kinds of methods, practices, and scholarly and creative work currently being conducted under this aegis.
* Google has access to WorldCat metadata
* Google says bad metadata comes from external providers
* No restrictions on which WorldCat metadata fields can be used
* Alternative to OCLC cataloging already in some libraries
* Fewer records, emphasis on quality
* Copy cataloging record search and notification included
It has been a couple of years since I posted statistics from WorldCat, so here is a new spreadsheet based on an October 1, 2009 snapshot (see the earlier post for an explanation of the table). WorldCat has changed dramatically...
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at the "World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Council 23-27 August 2009, Milan, Italy
http://www.ifla.org/annual-conference/ifla75/index.htm
Date submitted: 03/06/2009.
A. Devlic, R. Reichle, M. Wagner, M. Pinheiro, Y. Vanrompay, Y. Berbers, and M. Valla. 6th IEEE Workshop on Context Modeling and Reasoning (CoMoRea) at the 7th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom’09), page 1-8. Washington, DC, USA, IEEE Computer Society, (2009)
K. Geihs, R. Reichle, M. Wagner, and M. Khan. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering 2009, 2, page 458-463. (2009)