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The site links to the 75 page PDF document, Functional Requirements for Authority Data:  A Conceptual Model.

Blog authors bio:  "I am an Independent Consultant with a focus on speaking and consulting engagements that help organizations unlock the power of web research and web analytics to create truly data driven organizations and gain a strategic competitive advantage. I am also the author of the book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, published by Wiley."

This author provides a guide to ontologies. 

Note the bridging role that an ontology plays between a domain and its content.

The authors of this article propose a new infrastructure for digital reference that creates a fielded, searchable knowledge base, the Digital Reference Electronic Warehouse (DREW).

This podcast, from Dave Lankes, explores "reference authoring" or the concept of turning reference outputs (i.e. interviews, interactions, research, training programs, etc.) into new products, particularly as it relates to digital reference and the resulting document creation (i.e. transcripts, pathfinders, knowledge base created by software, etc).

Should the Library of Congress (LC) jettison Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), the longstanding professional taxonomy? That's one of the provocative suggestions in a new report released last month by LC. "The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools," commissioned by LC and written by associate university librarian Karen Calhoun of Cornell University, was making waves weeks earlier, thanks to a critical review of a draft of her paper, written for AFSCME 2910, the LC Professional Guild, by Thomas Mann (author of The Oxford Guide to Library Research). It warned of "serious negative consequences for the capacity of research libraries to promote scholarly research."

"Rough Type is an independent blog written and published by Nicholas Carr. It's mainly about the business and cultural implications of information technology, though it wanders into other areas at times.Nick is a writer, editor, and speaker. He is the author of the book Does IT Matter? and has written articles for many magazines and newspapers. He was formerly the executive editor of the Harvard Business Review."

Abstract of Stephen's phenomenological study, Modeling the role of blogging in librarianship, that examines the motivations and experiences of librarians who author professionally-focused blogs

This is the website of Michael Heim, author of Electric Language, a book-length study of electronic text.