For LIS2000 we had an online discussion that dealt with the web and it's effects on librarianship and scholarly communication. From the discussion, what interested me most was how the emergence of the Semantic web might impact cataloging. Clearly new standards for metadata will have to be established as "data about data" will increase ubiquitously. What is unclear is whether or not librarians will have a role in determining a new language for such standards, or web administrators will use an open access model or user data-seeking behavior to come up with a meaningful system.
"The Nature of Meaning in the Age of Google" by T.A. Brooks is an interesting take on this topic and can be found at http://informationr.net/ir/9-3/paper180.html.
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