"Libraries were once the center of the information universe. Fifteen years ago, if I had told you about the coming internet, you would have assumed that libraries would have a prominent place on it. They don't.
Libraries, including WorldCat, rarely show up in web searches, even for books. I lay the blame squarely at the wrong-headed decision to keep library data off the "real web" and to push WorldCat as a "aggregation point" for nobody.
We don't need a German Digital Library. There is already a Global Digital Library, so "GDL" is already taken as a trademark, sorry (ok, the German version uses DDB as label): "the net".
"I think we've gotten to the point in these discussions where we have to
define our terms. In the same way that "MARC" means both a structure and
data elements and a content standard, the terms FRBR and RDA are now
taking on multiple meanings."
"Without such a formal domain model, you're just creating 'text', not 'data'. Which is indeed what we used to do, when the text was destined for printed cards or pages. But now we need data."
"Do you know what I think they major problem is? Lack of knowledge management. No idea about digital persistent identification. No subject-centricity. No understanding of semantics in data modeling. No clue about ontologies, inferencing, guides by analogy, no real
knowledge about collection management ( ... wait for it ... ) with multiple hooks and identities, no serious *want* to learn these things, and definitly no budget if they did."