Comments on: Virtual Karen’s Top Tech Trends http://litablog.org/2008/06/30/virtual-karens-top-tech-trends/ Library and Information Technology Association Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:39:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: iLibrarian » Top Technology Trends http://litablog.org/2008/06/30/virtual-karens-top-tech-trends/#comment-119727 iLibrarian » Top Technology Trends Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:33:52 +0000 http://litablog.org/?p=644#comment-119727 [...] Karen Coombs [...] [...] Karen Coombs [...]

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]]> By: Owen Stephens http://litablog.org/2008/06/30/virtual-karens-top-tech-trends/#comment-119413 Owen Stephens Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:41:26 +0000 http://litablog.org/?p=644#comment-119413 APIs - I'm not entirely convinced we need standards - I understand you don't want to have to cope with lots of APIs, but if you look at other web communities, they haven't standardised, and this hasn't unduely hindered development. I think as an organised profession we have a tendency to see the benefits of standardization - but this sometimes (often?) stops us in our tracks while we don't do anything until we have all agreed on how something should work - the rest of the world moves on while we debate. All this said, the DLF's ILS Discovery Interface Task Force's recommendation went out recently, it is posted on the DLF website http://diglib.org/architectures/ilsdi/ There is also a Google group for this at http://groups.google.com/group/ils-di?hl=en APIs - I’m not entirely convinced we need standards - I understand you don’t want to have to cope with lots of APIs, but if you look at other web communities, they haven’t standardised, and this hasn’t unduely hindered development. I think as an organised profession we have a tendency to see the benefits of standardization - but this sometimes (often?) stops us in our tracks while we don’t do anything until we have all agreed on how something should work - the rest of the world moves on while we debate.

All this said, the DLF’s ILS Discovery Interface Task Force’s recommendation went out recently, it is posted on the DLF website http://diglib.org/architectures/ilsdi/

There is also a Google group for this at http://groups.google.com/group/ils-di?hl=en

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