Dorothea has a curmudgeonly post today about what she sees as the absence of librarians in the technical standards community.
She’s wrong. So here’s my curmudgeonly response. :)
Dorothea, there are many, many librarians and libraries involved in technical standards development and implementation. For goodness sake, who do you think developed the Dublin Core?
Making generalizations about the library profession based on one academic library is a bit like making generalizations about the web development profession based on one development firm. People with an interest in standards tend to cluster, and there are plenty of places in library land to find them:
I know there have been librarians on a variety of IETF and W3C committees, as well, but I don’t have time to look all of that up. My guess is that some of my regular library community readers will add some of that in my comments section.
Dorothea has a curmudgeonly post today about what she sees as the absence of librarians in the technical standards community.
She’s says she might be wrong—and she is. So here’s my curmudgeonly response. :)
There are many, many librarians and libraries involved in technical standards development and implementation. For goodness sake, who do you think developed the Dublin Core?
Making generalizations about the library profession based on one academic library is a bit like making generalizations about the web development profession based on one development firm. People with an interest in standards tend to cluster, and there are plenty of places in library land to find them:
I know there have been librarians on a variety of IETF and W3C committees, as well, but I don’t have time to look all of that up. My guess is that some of my regular library community readers will add some of that in my comments section.
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