Delight in Thinking

SW is a good thing, regardless of her ideals or methods are encouraging. SW library is obviously the best field of applications, libraries embrace SW is taken for granted. However, the library can use now dedicated to the SW? This issue has been bothering me.

SW is the core of a complete description of mechanisms through logical and accurate transmission of data, semantic information machine, a distributed environment to achieve semantic interoperability. SW mechanism has two parts: description of mechanisms and reasoning mechanism, which traditional information retrieval mechanism - Vocabulary mechanism and matching mechanism are very different. Librarians are familiar with the traditional paradigm of the latter, not familiar with the SW paradigm, paradigm change can be achieved, should be the application of SW libraries the biggest challenge.

Discourse in the SW, there is an important concept is the data consumer (consuming), or another system to another system provides consumer data services. So when we build SW application, you first need to solve two major problems: what kind of data we provide services? Who consumption of our data services? For the library, we can provide what kind of data services? This application SW libraries into the most important issue, there are changes in the environment of information technology, library information superiority is almost lost. Originally, we defenders of a great number of databases, this may be our unique resources, but this advantage is gradually lost, Google and Amazion published bibliographic data in terms of quality or quantity of a tendency to have more than the library community More importantly, these commercial companies have a very broad user base, users of these commercial companies far more than loyalty to the loyalty of the library. Therefore, to date, we have not only to provide bibliographic data service providers, and are subject to severe competitive challenges. In addition to bibliographic data services, we also can use the SW to deliver other types of data services? If the library function does not change the role, almost impossible.

Even if we are able to provide high-quality data services, then who is going to consumption of our data services? This is another key issue. Consumer data services The key is "trust". Published data services must be for people to have adequate reliability data sources, then what faith people are librarians recommended books? What faith librarians provide professional data? Of course, libraries provide data services to consumers are a large part of the library itself - to share data libraries. This is indeed a major consumer groups, through the sharing of data between the library to form a complete comprehensive data cloud, may be able to rebuild our library's core competitiveness. This should be our starting point for libraries SW applications.

Application SW, need libraries together.