The training is typically an apprenticeship under the
senior...
To my regret training/apprenticeship does not fit to "everyone
can...", "be bold!" set of wikimedia slogans/motto.
As to me I would stand behind (vote for) training and apprenticeship.
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 12:23 AM, David Goodman<dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The training is typically an apprenticeship under the
senior
cataloging librarians.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Samuel Klein<meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> DGG, I appreciate your points. Would we be so motivated by this
> thread if it weren't a complex problem?
>
> The fact that all of this is quite new, and that there are so many
> unknowns and gray areas, actually makes me consider it more likely
> that a body of wikimedians, experienced with their own form of
> large-scale authority file coordination, are in a position to say
> something meaningful about how to achieve something similar for tens
> of millions of metadata records.
>
>> OL rather than Wikimedia has the advantage that more of the people
>> there understand the problems.
>
> In some areas that is certainly so. In others, Wikimedia communities
> have useful recent experience. I hope that those who understand these
> problems on both sides recognize the importance of sharing what they
> know openly -- and showing others how to understand them as well. We
> will not succeed as a global community if we say that this class of
> problems can only be solved by the limited group of people with an MLS
> and a few years of focused training. (how would you name the sort of
> training you mean here, btw?)
>
> SJ
>
>