I once heard a C level executive at an international publishing company describe the platform hosting the online version of over 1800 of his journals as simply a fulfillment system. In fact it is but in the online world the publishers role is much larger. Librarians, publishers, and Google all claim as part of their mission organizing information. When an end user goes to a university library and uses a z39.50 enable federated search gateway to find content the holdings knowledge base will direct them to the appropriate copy on some platform where the IP address is recognized as coming from a university and the user is given access to the content they have found. and in that content there are scholarly citations to other content and the platform builds an OpenURL link back to the Library's link resolver which again looks in the holdings database and directs the user to the appropriate copy of the second conten item. I have spent a good part of the last ten years getting this sy...
I am a technologist, by profession, and a political activist by inclination. But this blog is for thoughts that are not affiliated with any employer past present or future. And this is not where I will be overtly political. I will discuss technology that I use. I may discuss big ideas about the way that society is changing.