Library school bloggers
Library schools are back in session and I’m pleased to see that professors are assigning articles about FRBR. It’s not uncommon for students to have to post their reviews or critiques on a blog, either. It looks like someone assigned Stefan Gradmann’s “rdfs:frbr: Towards an Implementation Model for Library Catalogs Using Semantic Web Technology” to a class and they blogged it below. The anchor texts are quotes from the reviews. I think it’s an odd paper to assign to an introductory class, and the blog posts reflect that.
- More standards and rules… just what every cataloger wants and needs.
- [The paper] brilliantly illustrates the fact that I don’t know anything about hardware or networking or the actual structures that support the Internet
- That sounds great, I guess, after I Googled FRBR and figured out what the bleep he was talking about.
- However, many have concerns about censorship and Semantic Web.
- In Gradmann’s native Germany, or among EU nations in general, people (i.e., taxpayers) might support the concept of expending public funds for such a long range goal.
- I had a pretty hard time understanding this article as I have no practical experience with FRBR (and I had to Google it to find out that it is, in fact, Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) or Semantic Web technology.
- After reading his article, I did go straight to Amazon and add some XML tutorial books to my wishlist :}
- If information professionals cannot even follow the standards, why have information standards in the first place? I believe we must start making a way for more standardization on the Internet. If not us, then who, if not now, when?
- I’m no dummy, but I honestly think that the first two pages of “rdfs:frbr – Towards an Implementation Model for Library Catalogs Using Semantic Web Technology” by Stefan Gradmann melted by brain.