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Re: Tools and more on ALA
I would sure love to have a good article on this topic to publish in
_Information Technology and Libraries_. It would be a good
contribution to the literature and a valuable offering to the
profession. See contact info below, for anyone who might want to do
it.
Dan Marmion
"Belton, Keith" wrote:
>
> Matthew Beacom wrote:
>
> >Tools for non-programmers to use to work with metadata in XML would be a
> great set of projects.
> >
>
> I second this, as well as tools for "quasi" programmers like myself (who
> know just enough to get in trouble). I would be happy work with anyone on
> evaluating and putting together in a systematic way sets of tools that are
> useful to a wide group of people. I have the beginnings of such a project
> that I would like to publish as a web site as soon as I get time to make it
> presentable. My own interests are complete DL packages (like Greenstone),
> tools for XML/object publishing like Zope and Cocoon, Z39.50 stuff, and
> Python (see "knows enough to get in trouble", above).
>
> I think that to build on the obvious momentum of the ALA presentations -
> great work, Dan, Jeremy, Peter, David - if we could say, "here is a set of
> open source tools that your library can use to publish your local digital
> collections" there would be a tremendous rush of support for open source in
> library land. A lot of pent-up demand out there. There are a lot of smaller
> libraries with a minimal level of skills ( "I know how to type 'make'") that
> would appreciate a generic set of tools to get them up and visible. IS this
> a reasonable goal? Any ideas?
>
> IMHO the ALA presentations were a watershed even, given the number of people
> there and their level of interest.
>
> Keith
>
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