And I Thought Library Science Was a Hot Job Category

Steven Bell writes \”Admittedly, this column on the semantic web by Andy Oram of O\’Reilly & Associates in not at all related to librarianship – excepting that the semantic web concept is something we need to know about and thus this makes pretty good reading, but I like a quote Oram uses to put his issues with the semantic web into perspective. He writes, \”I used to have high hopes for knowledge management; in one article I even suggested (admittedly tongue in cheek) that library science would become the next hot job category. But there\’s no reason why librarians wouldn\’t become the next hot job category if the Semantic Web really depended on the formal organization of information. Why hasn\’t this happened?\” The column is found
Here. \”

April 23, 2002 by Uncategorized 0

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