A number of issues have been bouncing around in my head lately: Can you really have a sovereign identity on someone else’s network? Sovereign identity might mean “Your identity is your problem.” Blockchain might be oversold, but for the wrong reasons. Blockchain: the Emperor’s New PKI looks at this. Amazon was oversold back when it was a book catalog, but no one predicted that it would […]
MARC
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While thinking of how to draw timelines from earlier posts, I thought of technology that did not lead to progress. In the library world, the most recent leap to nowhere was Bibframe. The Library of Congress and Zepheira were about to retire MARC. Everyone agreed and still agrees that it is outdated. Bibframe would integrate library holdings into search results. The hard copies on the stacks, […]