This would also go a long way to keeping library knowledge relevant, for this information could be linked from other sources of information about authors, courses, geography, historical weather data . . . to everything. There are important efforts — such as the Linked Data for Libraries project led by Cornell, Harvard, and Stanford — getting started on that task. Opening up resources in this way enables the culture of libraries to be knit into the online network where our culture has taken up residence. Someday perhaps the content will catch up. David Weinberger is a senior researcher at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Source: Libraries need a deeper online presence – Opinion – The Boston Globe