tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449424179075324791.post3677196353762622747..comments2024-02-18T02:16:07.976-08:00Comments on synthesize-specialize-mobilize: flatlands and failures of curationMark Dahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883637834846756347noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449424179075324791.post-47898470735738051732009-10-29T16:51:59.641-07:002009-10-29T16:51:59.641-07:00Mark, your post came to mind while I was reading t...Mark, your post came to mind while I was reading <a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/Home/news/stories/2009/10/bookgalaxy.aspx" rel="nofollow">this JISC post</a>. Did you see it?Bryan Alexanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05937099144329508708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449424179075324791.post-76298364789867274992009-10-29T12:04:07.065-07:002009-10-29T12:04:07.065-07:00Mark, as I read your post I began to think about t...Mark, as I read your post I began to think about the NGC4LIB discussion about Steve Lohr’s interview of Tim Berners-Lee. The NGC4LIB discussion touched on the user tasks as described in FRBR. (See the NGC4LIB thread “User tasks outdated—Why?”) My sense of what’s missing from the FRBR user tasks is helping the user understand what is important given their goal.<br /><br />My thinking here is also guided by the comments Timothy Burke made to the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. If the user’s goal has to do with a field in which they are a novice, then they want to know who the important authors are and why, which topics are important and why, which works are important and why, and the chronological relationships of the important works. If their goal is to identify the most useful edition of a work, then they want to know which editions are most useful and why, and they want to understand the chronological relationship of the editions.<br /><br />That’s the type of information I imagine being gathered through human curation. In the case of understanding the important editions of a work, the work is really the backdrop against which a little story of the editions is told. In the case of a field, a story of important researchers, topics, and works needs to be told. It seems to me that librarians are in a strong position to be able to tell these stories.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02120179264226269674noreply@blogger.com