creative disorder

"To choose order over disorder, or disorder over order, is to accept a trip composed of both the creative and the destructive. But to choose the creative over the destructive is an all-creative trip composed of both order and disorder. To accomplish this, one need only accept creative disorder along with, and equal to, creative order, and also willing to reject destructive order as an undesirable equal to destructive disorder."

—the principia discordia

• more digitization projects
• more metadata standards
• the library's place in a networked environment










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Recommendations:

• making rare and unique materials available
• integrate library standards into web environment
• collaborate with expert users in generating metadata

http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/news/lcwg-report-draft-11-30-07-final.pdf

• using application profiles
• more harvesting of metadata records (by OAI or otherwise)
• working with Semantic Web developers to advance our goals and theirs
• working directly with core users to develop metadata uses; encouraging transparency

• Dublin Core Library Application Profile
• Semantic Web standards: RDF, SKOS, OWL











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• collaborative metadata application profiles
• awareness of emerging Semantic Web applications











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• embrace tagging and social applications
• enable personalized information tools
• open platforms and architecture

• Tagging tools: Flickr, del.icio.us
• Portals: Zotero, iGoogle
• Open platforms: Open Library, Google Maps

• support open platforms and architecture wherever possible
• expect not to be the first information source
• free the metadata!

• A more open and collaborative information environment
• Personalized but social
• Tearing down the silos

• A more open and collaborative information environment
• Personalized but social
• Tearing down the silos

Objective: striking a balance between planned uses of our resources by core collection users (creative order) and unplanned, creative uses of those resources from the wider public (creative disorder)

kevin m. clair
penn state university libraries
kmc35 [at] psulias.psu.edu

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