Brewster Kahle Should Be the Next Librarian of Congress

Post by E34C3EFAF162 » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 8:38 PM UTC

kyledrake wrote: post #9

E34C3EFAF162 wrote: post #5

I know HN has a love affair going with IA and stuff, but as someone who has worked in the digital library world and has traveled in some of the same circles as IA, I don't really see this. The IA is a great project and all, but it's not really the same as the Library of Congress. LC has to be sort of an indelible record of the doings of government and the literature of the day. The scope is big, but it's well-defined…

Brewster isn't considered forward thinking because he's from San Francisco and worked on a startup. He's considered forward thinking because he's selflessly and tirelessly spent an enormous amount of time and money working to prevent a Lost Decade for human knowledge, while the rest of us (including me) were sitting around letting it erode away. I've met web researchers that have told me they sometimes spend 80% of t…

Post by greglindahl » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 9:12 PM UTC

E34C3EFAF162 wrote: post #11

kyledrake wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Brewster isn't considered forward thinking because he's from San Francisco and worked on a startup. He's considered forward thinking because he's selflessly and tirelessly spent an enormous amount of time and money working to prevent a Lost Decade for human knowledge, while the rest of us (including me) were sitting around letting it erode away. I've met web researchers that have told me they sometimes spend 80% of t…

So... CDL doesn't exist. LOCKSS doesn't exist. DPLA doesn't exist. HathiTrust doesn't exist. DuraSpace doesn't exist. Well, interesting.