Brewster Kahle and the Open Content Initiative are doing some interesting and credible things.
It’s especially interesting to see the open source software being made available from it, like Dojo.
Some of the scans are quite beautiful, like this Henry James book.
It’s laudable to make the entirety of human knowledge, especially scientific, available for free. But what about that free lunch?
news @ nature.com - Open-access journal hits rocky times - Financial analysis reveals dependence on philanthropy.
The Public Library of Science (PLoS), the flagship publisher for the open-access publishing movement, faces a looming financial crisis. An analysis [...]
As I looked through my del.icio.us tags, it occured to me that many recent library initiatives seem to center around being Open.
It could be argued that weblogs are an exercise in openess, and I’ll start by getting the themes for the week off the ground.
Open Access
Open Content
Open Search
Open Source
Open URL
After this, I’m heading down to [...]
This blog is now open for business (sorry, terrible pun, couldn’t resist).
As a new editor at LJ, I’m interested in making the content more relevant to readers, like, well, me.
As a former systems librarian, I first wanted to organize the content in a way that made sense to me. So you can browse the LJ [...]
About
Jay Datema has an MBA from Binghamton University (2007), a Masters in Library and Information Science from Dominican University (1999), and a BA in Literature from Wheaton College (1995).
Reading
Weinberger, David. Everything is miscellaneous : the power of the new digital disorder. New York: Times Books, 2007.
Quotables
“The new skills needed to preserve digital information are the same ones that librarians have always employed to serve users: selection, acquisition, and local knowledge.”
– Episode 3
16 April 2007
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