The MARC format: the Library Equivalent to Reliance on Oil?
Thomas Friedman, author of Longitudes and Attitudes and The World Is Flat, has a column in Friday's New York Times called The New 'Sputnik' Challenges: They ...
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On the Need for a General Purpose Digital Object Repository
Digital objects -- we've all got 'em. Billions and billions of them. And we put them in individual content silos, stratified along such unhelpful lines as ...
Aggregation of Risk in Pursuit of Disruptive Technologies
An open letter to Clayton Christensen as well as colleagues and practitioners of the theories of disruptive innovation: State agencies in Ohio responsible fo...
A: “Communication and Honesty”
This paragraph was at the very end of an interview with Antonio Perez, CEO of Eastman Kodak on page 46 of the January 16th issue of Newsweek. What lessons c...
Germany is at it, too
This just in -- at least to my INBOX -- Germany is working on a unified repository as well. Called the eSciDoc project, it closely mirrors what the DRC is g...
Bibliography of Christensen’s “Disruptive Technology” on Libraries and Higher Education
Please Note: This bibliography is now housed at http://dltj.org/christensen-bibliography/. This version will not be updated. Over the course of 2005 I've...
Repositories Visualized
On 12/14/05 10:26 AM, Richard Green wrote on the sakai-library mailing list: The RepoMman projectat the University of Hull, UK, is looking into the area of ...
Onto the Scholar’s Desktop with Firefox Scholar
I first encounted Firefox Scholar (a.k.a. SmartFox) in a Chronicle of Higher Education article by Jeffrey Young, and noted with interest this statement in th...
Introducing Geographic Scope to Physical Collections
So I don't know how this one slipped past me: you can link directly into Open WorldCat via an ISBN/ISSN REST-based URL. Now any Web site can create "Find in...
Marketing Malpractice
I haven't yet gotten around to writing the blog entry about why Clayton Christensen's work is important, but this citation was too good to let go by. How ca...