{"id":64,"date":"2006-06-17T00:19:19","date_gmt":"2006-06-17T05:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dilettantes.code4lib.org\/2006\/06\/17\/why-dan-is-wrong-and-yet-totally-right\/"},"modified":"2006-06-17T00:19:19","modified_gmt":"2006-06-17T05:19:19","slug":"why-dan-is-wrong-and-yet-totally-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/2006\/06\/why-dan-is-wrong-and-yet-totally-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Dan is wrong (and, yet, totally right)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dan<\/a> has written (twice now) about the ‘ILS Bill of Rights’ and its complete lack of perspective.<\/p>\n

He’s right in his equation (or lack thereof) of the OPAC to “Free Speech” and “lack of Government Oppression regarding which religion I choose”; however, I disagree with him about the ability to be able to freely change vendors at will when the vendor doesn’t meet our needs (which means we’d be changing vendors, like, weekly).<\/p>\n

That being said… why bother with the ILS?<\/p>\n

Art Rhyno<\/a> and I have been trying for more than a year to extract our bib database into a Lucene index to work with as we please. It took until NCSU released their Endeca index for us to be taken even remotely seriously. Still, the question remains… why bother with the ILS? If we can change the public interface, are the staff interfaces so lacking? Do we need to AJAX-ify the cataloging client or the circulation interface?<\/p>\n

Dan’s right, we don’t need an ILS “Bill of Rights”, but we do need to fix our problems. And we don’t have to change vendors to do so — we just need a bit of vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dan has written (twice now) about the ‘ILS Bill of Rights’ and its complete lack of perspective. He’s right in his equation (or lack thereof) of the OPAC to “Free Speech” and “lack of Government Oppression regarding which religion I choose”; however, I disagree with him about the ability to be able to freely change […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}