Check out this white paper, entitled Scholr 2.0, which discusses the future of academic libraries, scholarly research, and scholarly portals. While there is a PDF version available for old-schoolers, the white paper itself is presented using CommentPress, an open source theme for WordPress (a blogging engine) that allows readers to comment at a paragraph level in the margins of the text, greatly helping the collaborative creation of documents.
While it's not new -- the piece has been out since August, 2007 -- I still think it's a great read and it accomplishes its goal to provoke thinking and comment on the requirements for the next-generation of scholarly portals. If librarians are going to remain relevant in an increasingly full-text-indexed, folksonomied world, then how are they going to do it? It's not an easy question and I think the white paper does a good job of answering it.
MarkLogic gets mentioned in section 3.0 for our work in supporting the Scholars Portal. Excerpt:
With the migration of Scholars Portal to Mark Logic, an important opportunity has been created to incorporate Web 2.0 technologies into the discovery layer of this service. With strong support for XML, XQuery, relevance-based searching, facet-based browsing, thesaurus expansion, language-based stemming and collations, automatic classification, web services, AJAX and other agile programming approaches, Mark Logic gives us the kinds of tools we need to incorporate the best of current Web technologies into a new Scholars Portal interface.My favorite section heading in the report is: XML + XQuery = data and content happiness. I couldn't have said it better myself.
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