Jones, Paul. Open(source)ing the Doors for Contributor-run Digital Libraries
Regarding Jones' argument that "we can have contributor-run libraries", I would be interested to hear the library science people's opinion. Is there an elitist sentiment among today's librarians, and a fear of becoming "no longer needed" that triggers an attitude of defensiveness towards approaches such as those proposed by Jones?
Is Jones' idea of a contributor-run library as "noisy, vibrant" incompatible with the (Platonic?) idea itself of library?
Can we really speak, as Jones does, of "intellectual discourse" being fostered by a large mass of contributions by people whose credentials are never truly known? Is there not risk of creating an environment that suffers from "wiki-itis"?
About Me
- David Cane
- David was born in Florence, Italy, in 1981. He received his BA in Diplomatic History from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004, and his MA in Italian from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2007, with a thesis on Dante and Yeats. He is currently completing his doctoral coursework. His main interests include Dante, Boccaccio, medieval allegory, modern lyric poetry (Baudelaire, Poe, Shelley, Montale, to name a few) and meta-literature. David doesn't know the difference between XML and SGML, not even what they stand for, but he knows the difference between anaphora and anadiplosis, as well as the etimology of both words.
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