So, y’all remember that thought leader thing at NISO I blogged about?
So yeah, that’s gone and happened. What came out of it? We need a streamlined protocol for deposit, they say.
Hello, NISO brain trust? This exists. It’s called SWORD. Rubber-stamp it and move on, plzkthx—preferably to browbeating people into implementing it. Your friends down the street at PubMedCentral? They’d be a great place to start.
I’d like to say “I snark because I love,” and usually it’s true, but this time I don’t. I snark because I’m appalled. I’m just a repository-rat. I can keep up with this stuff. The people on that committee, some of them, it’s their job to keep up with this stuff, and they sure don’t seem to be doing it. And the whole idea of spending gobs of time and money and martinis on a standards effort that will be obsolete when it comes out… I think I like my idea for what the NISO brain trust should have been doing a lot better.
