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Apesar de ser talvez … recente demais.

e lá dentro vejam o mesmo registo expresso em MARCXML  XML (por acaso em Dublin Core) e MARC Pessoalmente acho que estes três documentos são a melhor maneira de ensinar XML e Dublin Core a pessoas com história na catalogação e biblioteconomia, mas enfim, digo tanto disparate na vida. Não aceito que quem consegue digerir uniMARC não consiga… Read More »

Parece que ser personna surrogate ghost é uma profissão de futuro, ie: fingir ser alguém que nos paga para sermos “ELE/A” nos mundos e comunidades online. Mais pormenores em: BBC NEWS | Technology | Are my online friends for real?

Competências dos bibliotecários em Gestão de Conhecimento Indexing Abstracting Taxonomy, controlled vocabulary development Quality filtering of information Grant planning writing Networking and community outreach Needs assessment Project management Web page development Graphical design Database development and maintenance Usability testing and evaluation Curriculum development Teaching and training Statistical analysis Project and program evaluation Compiling white papers Writing for publication… Read More »

The problem is not how to digitize libraries to deliver information to the desktop and laboratory; the problem is how to create flexible organizations that reach beyond the boundaries of the physical campus. Peter Lyman “Knowledge Discovery in a Networked World” in Information Alchemy:The Art and Science of Knowledge Management. (Ed. Gerald Bernbom) EDUCAUSE Leadership Strategies, No. 3,… Read More »

Alguem me explica porque é que os artigos, que escritos 60 anos depois, que citam “As We May Think” de Vannevar Bush (1945) são melhores que os  outros.

Definitions are formulated to serve specific purposes. The research community’s definitions serve to identify and focus attention on research problems and to expand the community of interest around those problems. The library community’s de®nitions focus on practical challenges involved in transforming library institutions and services. Hence neither the research community nor library community definitions are particularly helpful in… Read More »

Borgman, C.L. (2001). Where is the librarian in the digital library? Communications of the ACM, 44(5), 66-67. Special issue on digital libraries. Procurem e leiam… é muito interessante pois pergunta logo no 1º parágrafo: Can we or should we do without the librarian in digital libraries? E mais à frente: When users retrieve tens of thousands of matches… Read More »

Ainda no outro dia aqui falei disto: Griffiths (1998) confronts the question of `why the web is not a library’. Her reasons include incompleteness of content, lack of standards and validation, minimal cataloging and ine€ective information retrieval. To this we add that the World-Wide Web is not an institution and is not organized on behalf of a specifiable… Read More »