Internous asks librarians of the tangled web to unite. It has a proposal for adoption of a Internet Search Environment Number that would be applied to all databases on the web and make searching the deep web possible.
"You know how the ISBN is assigned to books. Over 1 million books are assigned ISBNs each year. What ISEN plans to do is emulate that system for databases. We would assign over 1 million databases ISEN or Internet Search Environment Numbers once the system is in place in its first year. There may be as many as 5 million in the backlog for cataloging by a social nework of librarians. Life Science databases would be cataloged by life science librarians, law resources by law librarians, etc..."
Very ambitious - view the video at least to see the dream.
Posted by Gwen at December 11, 2009 02:44 AM