Daily Thoughts 3/11/2011
I read a little bit of The Information by James Gleick on the way to work. I also read a bit more of The Accidental Taxonomist. I am thinking about the idea of ontology which is not something which I have thought about much before.
I updated the Twitter account this morning, did a bit more weeding, picked up a few surveys, and checked the displays.
On the way home, I read some more of The Accidental Taxonomist. The author was talking about who became a taxonomist. Almost half of taxonomists come from a library science background. Others seem to come from programming, publishing, or database backgrounds. The story seems very similar to the story of content strategy or information architecture where there is a close link to library science. The list of titles which would include taxonomy includes words like information, information architecture, content, analyst, taxonomist, content strategist, and similar words.
Web Bits
Filter or Be Flooded: Publisher As Curator
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/soapbox/article/46359-filter-or-be-flooded-publisher-as-curator.html
Is It Time to Rebuild & Retool Public Libraries and Make “TechShops”?
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/03/is-it-time-to-rebuild-retool-public-libraries-and-make-techshops.html#
I think it would be very interesting for a library to have ties to a coworking space, tech shop, or fab lab.
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