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 […]
OCLC
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So far, I have been unable to find an identity that works on multiple networks. Please comment if you have. In the library world, we have OCLC, which is a network of networks. Melvyl linked the UC system and was eventually subsumed into the larger co-op. If libraries make their own network (again, remember it would replace a co-op), would it be only one network? Would […]
Back in 1978, California passed Proposition 13, which began the defunding of many public services, including libraries. It was the beginning of what was branded right away as the Tax Revolt. The journal of academic librarianship understood it right away. An editorial by RMD in the July issue of that year referring to librarians said, “They must sell libraries to their communities.” After what was a stirring […]