Siderean contributes to the DCMI/RDA Task Group
The last four months have involved a lot of effort at work, much to the detriment of this blog. Renewed clarity of purpose and some loose-ends cleanup have given me a fresh reason to get back to blogging, so here’s a start.
I’d like to announce that Siderean has contributed funding for the DCMI/RDA Task Group. In doing so we join the British Library, and hopefully others to come, in supporting the Group’s work to ensure a solid foundation for the next generation of standards for library metadata.
Our reason for contributing is our belief that the issues that the Task Group are addressing have import beyond the traditional library community, and that the Task Group’s work will lead to insights for and innovations by the Web developer community at large as we all enter an era where, as David Weinberger so aptly puts it, “everything is metadata.”
So we’re looking forward to what Diane, Gordon, Karen and the rest of the team come up with, and are glad we could help out in some small way.