full title is -
university, library and museum content meets xml, web services and p2p by raymond yee, uc berkeley.
raymond is looking for answers from the alpha - geek community...doesn't sound like there are going to be answers here...just restating of issues that we (cmc) are all too familiar with.
some examples of cultural institute projects-
california digital library - lots of images etc.
mitopencourseware
university of texas at austin - the knowledge gateway
merlot.org
article archives - pre-print archives - FOS news (www.earlham.edu/~peters/)
the things that link all these examples is that they all want the material housed to be used - freely. they are more interested in sharing as much as possible.
Ray wants better tools -
users can look but not easily manipulate digital content -
they want a digital reference box - called a scholar box
this is an aggregation tool that allows users to gather materials from all the repositories that they want to draw on, then be able to organise and of course create their own material. they want to be able to rip, mix and burn!
Ray is showing us a mock up of what he wants...he is really pitching to the audience to provide these tools :)
The mock up is pretty much a shopping cart metaphor that captures references materials.
METS - markup for library - xml
this is actually kinda sweet...basically this guy really wants this community of alpha geeks to really get into the idea of developing tools for managing and distibuting content housed within what he calls - cultural institutions. Not much of interest for us however.
Posted by paula at April 24, 2003 10:15 PM