{"id":383,"date":"2004-04-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/04\/13\/316\/"},"modified":"2004-04-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-12T22:00:00","slug":"316","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/04\/13\/316\/","title":{"rendered":"Filling in the margins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Udell on InfoWorld &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/04\/04\/09\/15OPstrategic_1.html?source=rss&amp;url=http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/04\/04\/09\/15OPstrategic_1.html\" title=\"InfoWorld: Filling in the margins: April 09, 2004: By Jon Udell\">&#8222;Filling in the margins&#8220;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;As I watch the students typing at the Dell PCs in the hallway, I realize that none of these kids has ever seen or used a card catalog. That&#8217;s mostly a good thing. But when I joined a group of librarians on a panel last month, I was reminded that something useful has been lost: a tradition of local annotation. This isn&#8217;t just old-fogy nostalgia. Librarians could talk to patrons through the medium of the library card, and although they weren&#8217;t supposed to, patrons could talk back to librarians &#8211; and to one another. It was a useful back channel that online catalogs could have supported. But because it wasn&#8217;t part of the official protocol, they didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>The fuzzy intersection of official and unofficial data has never been a comfort zone for information technologists. In chapter 4 of Klaus Kaasgaard&#8217;s Software Design and Usability, Xerox&#8217;s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) alumnus Austin Henderson says that &#8222;one of the most brilliant inventions of the paper bureaucracy was the idea of the margin.&#8220; There was always space for unofficial data, which traveled with the official data, and everybody knew about the relationship between the two.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Udell on InfoWorld &#8211; &#8222;Filling in the margins&#8220;: &#8222;As I watch the students typing at the Dell PCs in the hallway, I realize that none of these kids has ever seen or used a card catalog. That&#8217;s mostly a good thing. But when I joined a group of librarians on a panel last month, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}