Digital Libraries by W. Mischo
As the title suggests the Digital Libraries article by W. Mischo listed the challenges and influential work in the field of digital libraries. It mentioned the history of federal funded support for the digital libraries initiative that began as early as 1993. It was surprising to learn that the total amount of funding was 68 million dollars, but big time government agencies like NASA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the FBI were involved in funding the project. The influential work of the University of Illinois was mentioned as it provided the ability of viewing journal articles in a marked-up format within an internet environment, this led to web-based access to full-text journal searches.
The author hints at the competition with Google and their capabilities for “search and discovery” and academic library federated searching. To catch up, the NISO Meta Search Initiative was formed to develop industry standards for one-search access to multiple resources that will allow libraries to offer users the same search experience if they were using a web-search engine.
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An interesting article that discusses the complex relationship between librarians and computer science. The interest in digital libraries was the harbinger to new technologies, improved search capabilities and peaked the interest of publishers. With the internet explosion and digital library initiatives, publishers saw the opportunity to raise their journal subscriptions. While the article does not explicity state that the relationship between computer science and library scientists have soured, you get the sense that its not a happy union.
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I think that there is a little cultural gap between librarians and computer scientists. A nerd is a nerd, unless you're a geek, if you catch my drift.
I think that the involvement of NASA, the FBI, etc. is an interesting point. It makes sense, though. They have a lot to gain from the technology.
I guess it wasn't much of a stretch for the computer scientists and librarians to finally get together. Justin pretty much summed it up. Although, we're in library school so what does that make us? If only we could come up with something along the same lines as google...if only!!!
Yeah! I wonder why, though the Internet was invented in Europe, why was the USA the one to fund it so well?
Thanks for catching the implications of the publisher/librarian relationship.
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