When we come together

Constantinescu, Nicolaie When we come together., 2011 [Preprint]

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Libraries, Archives, Museums and Galleries are all together bound to cross a very turbulent period in the advent of a golden age. The debate over the convergence of these fields landed for the first time on neutral ground when they were coined as memory institutions and invited to collaborate in building common services like World Digital Library, Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe, Access to Cultural Heritage Networks Across Europe, The European Library and Europeana. In the light of the unfolding economic situation, the struggle to keep a valid social profile is often taken on the grounds of collaboration were enough resources are attracted in order to keep balance and even progress. The future presents a leverage point that should not be ignored or treated lightly: building the informational context through open and standard compliant technologies. LAMG specialists claim to have switched to a functional paradigm that puts the user needs as the core business. Doing so is to prepare for the future and the future is one where the resources are aggregated and linked in what we call today Semantic Web. Here we take into consideration the building blocks of this future starting from what we have, and advancing towards an inclusive picture where we are together. Open standards, open technologies, and open licenses are the key components of this space for collaboration among us. We should be swift in embracing them as our users have done this already.

Item type:	Preprint
Keywords:	libraries, museums, archives, galleries, collaboration, open standards, open technologies, open licenses, semantic web, rdf, library linked data, linked open data, open data
Subjects:	A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. > AC. Relationship of LIS with other fields . B. Information use and sociology of information > BF. Information policy B. Information use and sociology of information > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion. B. Information use and sociology of information > BI. User interfaces, usability. I. Information treatment for information services > IE. Data and metadata structures. I. Information treatment for information services > ID. Knowledge representation. J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JH. Digital preservation. L. Information technology and library technology > LB. Computer networking. L. Information technology and library technology > LC. Internet, including WWW. L. Information technology and library technology > LP. Intelligent agents. L. Information technology and library technology > LS. Search engines.
Depositing user:	Nicolaie Constantinescu
Date deposited:	18 Sep 2012
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:23
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/17566

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