libraries and Folksonomies

C|NET has a nine and a half minute video of Mary Sue Coleman speaking about their library digitization project.
http://news.com.com/1606-2_3-6036176.html

The transcript of her speech is available her:
http://www.umich.edu/pres/speeches/060206google.html

In this 32 minute recording, I join Rick Weingarten, Director of the ALA's Office of IT Policy, for a look inside the beltway.  Join us as he shares a brief bit of background about the American Library Association and a fairly interesting discussion about privacy, the google print litigation, and internet governance.

Also of interest could be ACRL's blog entry noting a number of higher ed associations have released a guide to copyright. Oh, and don't forget resources from our own policy office ;)



This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2005 Fall Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

Lorcan Dempsey on the Flickization of Yahoo
http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/000861.html

Lorcan Dempsey on FRBR and David Weinberger's comments on xISBN
http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/000859.html

Folksonomies and the Ministry of Reshelving
http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/670000067/post/210001821.html?nid=2700

"Will Google’s Keyword Searching Eliminate the Need for LC Cataloging and Classification?" Well, Thomas Mann has some ideas.  Read more at http://www.guild2910.org/searching.htm

IMHO, I think it is too early to tell what the web has in store for us ...  especially while social computing is at a such an infantile stage.  As I ponder the future of interesting activities like Odeo's distributed folksonomy support, where anyone can tag an item, as well as more established, but still young players like wikipedia, metabrainz and others, I can't help but think that there is much that we can't predict about the potential for disruptive technologies ... especially if someone were to bind traditional metadata stores from sources like libraries (content that is more or less widely available),  with a more contemporary twist.  That would certainly be a fun project to work on!