reading 2.0
Reading 2.0 slipped under my radar, but I guess that was the idea: to let people from OâReilly, Los Alamos National Labs, OCLC, The Internet Archive, Adobe, Yahoo, Harvard and Elsevier hobnob away from prying eyes. I havenât seen any audio/video for the event but Tim OâReilly has a nice fly on the wall summary of what went on.
Itâs refreshing to see library technologies/concepts such as OpenURL, OCOinS, OAI-PMH, FRBR, METS and Dublin Core starting to be talked about in the context of a larger information environment. For example I had no idea that Yahoo is harvesting data from the Internet Archive using the OAI-PMH protocol. And I didnât know Yahoo is starting to leverage microformats, but shouldâve guessed considering the recent news about Flickr starting to use hCard.
All in all these are exciting âlowercase semantic webâ times weâre living in. And itâs interesting to watch some of the things people you know have worked on starting to catch on. Hopefully Reading 2.0 was just the start of this ongoing collaboration. Case in point, I just heard Robert Sanderson say in #code4lib that heâs visiting the a9 folks to talk about opensearch and sru. This is just the sort of cross-fertilization we need going on in library land.