Re: LLD mention

I'm still absorbing the insights made by Jenn in her post, but wanted to make 2 observations....

1) I think one strong candidate for the kind of partnership we need might be Freebase. Without being able to chase down citations to back these assertions up at this moment, I do know that they have used and plan to expand their use of library metadata, which they have observed is of strikingly high quality. Secondly, I have it on good authority that they (which means "google" at this point) have a broad vision of being a prime source of entity data on the web. My point: keep an eye on these folks!

2) I attended the DLF Fall Forum this past year, and was similarly frustrated by the lack of focus on metadata during the big brainstorm session that occurred during the wrap-up session. Given the critical mass of stakeholders which makes up the  DLF constituency, I find this gap to be quite the missed opportunity. Where do they/we go from here? That is the $10,000 question.

Cheers,
Casey

On Feb 27, 2011, at 7:28 AM, Jodi Schneider <jodi.schneider@deri.org> wrote:

> Blog mentions of LLD and other groups:
> http://inquiringlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/02/so-i-had-dream-last-night-where-lorcan.html
> 
> Might be possible to extract some of Jenn Riley's hopes from LLD from that...
> 
> One key problem is still having different meanings for the same word: "I don't see this yet as the true strategic partnership geared at getting the right people in the room to find all the places where we say the same word but mean two different things yet."
> 
> -Jodi