Re: Recommendation on innovation

It might be worth mentioning the W3C itself as a possible place for
collaboration around the topic of Linked Data and cultural heritage
organizations. One of the best things about the Library Linked Data
Incubator Group has been the opportunity to have conversations about
this stuff with other people in the field, from around the world.

It might even be appropriate to recommend that we establish a
Community Group [1] for cultural heritage organizations, if they come
about.

//Ed

[1] http://www.w3.org/2010/12/community/

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote:
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> Cultivate an ethos of innovation
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> 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.
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> 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.
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