Professional Development

In the 'code4lib' Category...

Sunday, March 8, 2009 7:38 pm

In addition to a nice blur of technologies and acronyms, here, in distilled form, are a few key ideas I gathered from code4lib 2009:

libraries vs. museums of books (or how the ecosystem of information will become all electronic)
a chair in a room, a catalog on the web (or how design requires context)
linked open data (or how to turn the web into an API)
a web of data (or how information goes from books of pages to journals of articles to webs of hyperlinks to networks of relational assertions)
not simply a web of data (or why the goal should be to enrich lives through access to information)
“if you have something to say, release it as code” (or how to become an advocate in your library)
data outlasts code (or why open data is more important than open source)
the value of data (or why we should engineer for serendipity)

Published in 2009, code4lib