- From: Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net>
- Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 05:48:30 -0700
- To: public-lld <public-lld@w3.org>
Cultivate an ethos of innovation Small-scale, independent research and development, by innovators at individual library organizations, is particularly important, yet innovators at small organizations may be isolated, with only limited opportunities for contact with their counterparts elsewhere. This limits the sharing and reuse of innovations across the community. Thus there may be great duplication of effort (especially in small libraries) towards rediscovering solutions to common, shared problems, rather than advancing the state of the art. Communication of ideas and loose-knit collaboration across the community can save time and achieve common goals. Existing ad hoc communities such as Code4Lib, dev8D, and the mashedUp series provide support, networking, and information sharing for innovators. Developers and other innovators in these communities need to be further engaged and supported to grow libraries' capacity for problem-solving and innovation. Research and development is also advanced at library and information-focused graduate schools, especially the i-schools, through research-oriented organizations like ASIS&T and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, and in independent research groups like OCLC Research. Connections between such research organizations and individual libraries (especially small libraries, public libraries, and special libraries) could also be fruitful, both in translating research advances more quickly into production-level implementations and in directing research attention to new problems. -- Karen Coyle kcoyle@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
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