Subscribing to ALA Tech Source Blog

One might ask why a blog to keep track of government resources would subscribe another blog's feed - specifically ALA's Tech Source http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechsourceBlog. Well - simple and short answer, it records happenings in the industry that might affect government resources. For example, on April 1, 2007 - Google purchased OCLC and all of its holdings. WorldCat was renamed "Google Library" and every work published to the system is now available for full-text searching in the system. At OPL, I'm hoping that this might aid a retroconversion project from CODOC to Dewey - where cataloguers are looking for examples of older materials classified in Dewey that aren't available in Amicus. The more interesting comments listed in the announcement is that the fate of Dublin Core is stated to be uncertain... they say that ..."The fate of the Dublin Core initiative is unknown at this time, although it is promising that it was renamed "Cupertino Core." Officials admitted that CoreRank is their best hope to keep Google ahead of the search engine pack".... As many of our government e-services digitization projects use Dublin Core protocols, I am waiting to hear from our tech people how this might play out. More to follow