Now things are getting beyond my grip....
I've been stumbling around data-scraping, which one of my persons calls it, which might be the same thing as WSDL but might not, and I have tried to make sense of WSDL, which has been around for about ten years, and am trying to work out how it connects with xml, and how to extract from marc, map to xml, and map to wsdl, which is rather beyond my core competences.
It was in the early 1980s that I did databases and networking for development, then for the British Library on information for international development of third world communities, in the days when information meant roughly what Brenda White meant when she wrote the information needs of planners, or when Butterworth produced the information sources in.....
Then in parallel with international development, I tracked the role of structured systems analysis and design methods, (SSADM), soft systems, and Checkland's methods, then value chains and Michael Porter, and joined all this together for business and value networks, while at the same time I realised what was happening with the Internet, while chairing the LJUG and on the national whatever it was....
Then I began to look at all this in the context of the world wide web, as it became, and the building of web services, along with what then emerged as social networking....
If I understand the WSDL right, then I think we might have to have our fifth complete re-invention of everything we know about cat & class, while I stand by my faceted classification method with Just use Dewey and map to a thesaurus.
If anyone has a parallel story to tell and has achieved something, preferably in the arts and humanities, then I'd like to hear. The scientists have in general solved the matters long before they hit all this, that is what the science is all about. The Butterworth series became the Bowker Saur Information sources in, but in the meantime the Library Association destroyed its library, and then itself, so all we have is a search string.
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