Help construct a global directory of information professionals
February 27, 2011 3 Comments
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Dear all
A very good suggestion has come from simonfj, a reader who has suggested that we develop a global directory of the subject/disciplinary groups that are involved with digitisation, so that we can progress the notion (and work!) of collaboration. The Australian Access Federation enables collaboration internationally, as well as between disciplinary groups – it sounds ideal. His comment reads:
Gotta question though.One of the things I’m interested in is coming up with a directory for global subject/disciplinary groups. They call them ‘external’ groups at INternet2.
http://www.internet2.edu/comanage/
Taking that a bunch of NREN network managers can come up with federated log in to a group’s members’ space and integrate a number of “common services”http://www.aaf.edu.au/technical/common-services/ could librarians com up with the directory?
I am sure that by ‘librarians’, he means all of us. To this end, I have built a new wall for comments. If you visit the website below, you will find that you can add a virtual ‘post-it’ note which expresses your point of view: you can also include media files and URLs. Then, we can easily see and consider – and comment on – each other’s proposals.
http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/globaldirectory
I am excited to see what emerges out of this exercise!
All the best
Sue
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