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025.431: The Dewey blog: Isaac Asimov discuss humanism in all its aspects -- as a philosophy, as a religion, and its effects on politics." It's classed at 144 Humanism and related systems and doctrines. (Thanks toThom and Diane at OCLC for help with the WorldCat searches!) (via Cosmos)

  It's all good: Thom Hickey (via Cosmos)

panlibus: The demonstration shows how Silkworm Directory and Deep-Link Access Services can be used to deliver innovative new Wapplications [new word of mine to describe applications constructed from Web 2.0 style services, distributed across the network - I bet it doesn't catch on]. The diagram at the end of the screencast shows how the services are pulled together to construct it with very little [this application specific] code living anywhere. (via Cosmos)

SJ's Longest Now : freedom through constraint: Thom Hickey are working on developing a Metawiki to hold structured metadata along with each record. Talis advisor Paul Miller (of Common Information Environment fame) comments: It would be interesting - in the spirit of openness and cooperation - to understand (via Cosmos)

  Lorcan Dempsey's weblog: In these pages a while ago I wrote about Wikipedia as an addressible knowledgebase: a part of its great attraction is that one can invoke elements of that knowledgebase with a URL. Jerry MacDonough made the reasonable point that one cannot rely on a URL to have a stable referent and goes on to say: (via Cosmos)

  It's all good: Ferriero (NYPL) who spoke about NYPL’s experiences as one of the “Google 5” libraries (with references to an article by OCLC Research staff,  “Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for Libraries”) and Sarah Michalak (UNC Libraries) who spoke about UNC’s work on digitization and the Open Content Alliance. Their presentations were fascinating, and I hope my own proved as engaging. (via Cosmos)

  Academic Commons |: useful set of ruminations about how to think about the future of the library catalog, and a framework for asking that question in a broader context. Along the way, he also places a number of other library services (Interlibrary Loan, Federated Search) into that framework, providing useful ways to think about all of the evolutions implicated in the suprisingly rapid transition to a more fully networked information system.  (via Cosmos)

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