My most NERD oriented post ever on lis-link
I was at an IET meeting last night on WOA, web oriented architectures,
the first time I have heard a Z81 generation speaker in such a venerable
roo.
He put up a slide of what he considered to be a bit of history, which
had structure in the 1970s, object orientation in the 80s, a gap, the
SOA (service oriented if you are completely lost) and now, WOA REST (the
rest bit and its connections I haven't quite muscled yet)...
Now this seems to me to be challenging in a number of matters
If the structure of a thing called a book and a thing called a paper is
to go, there is still a role for a thing called a library, but its
organisation will change.
If we are dealing with the past, the present and the future, then the
intermediation of these media (post Gutenberg) seem to me to still
require structure?
The question is who, whom and what is to be done, as always.
The next matter is teaching and learning, of reusability, widgets, api
and so forth, but this must include fact, subject, argument and reason
(after Bolingbroke) which must include structure, and even, right and
wrong, good and bad, beauty, and perhaps truth? This is itself already
structure, and history.
The final matter is the enterprise model, which is itself of course a
structure with history, but now the matter of meta-enterprise models,
what sort of enterprise, doing what, to which purposes, including higher
education.
When designing theory to design principles for the design of objects, it
seems to me, we have to go back to basics, one of which is a module,
another of which is a bibliographic record, and I'm going to add a few
more to make an agile test case.
Enough for Friday morning, but WOA, rest
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