Christensen on “Disruption in Education”
Somehow I completely missed this paper by Clayton Christensen, Sally Aaron, and William Clark from the EDUCAUSE 2001 Forum for the Future of Higher Education...
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David Lewis in Ohio
OhioLINK was pleased to host David Lewis, Director of the Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis Library, to talk about "Disruptive Innovation ...
Where have all the programmers gone? Taking command of our destiny
What follows is pure conjecture; I did not live through the time in question, I can only speculate based on biased evidence and anecdotal hearsay. This is a...
To BPEL or not to BPEL, quite a good question
OhioLINK is actively looking at BPEL as an option for workflow orchestration for the DRC project. I was asked recently about that choice, especially in ligh...
Alternate (Open) Peer Review Model
At some point the DRC will need a generalized peer review system. Although I'm not sure we will use OAI-PMH to shepherd the results around various sys...
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 ...
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 ...