Wikimania

[l33tminion]

Today, I went to Wikimania (at Harvard this year; I only signed up for one day of the conference). The panels and speeches I went to were good, but the most interesting thing was the librarian's discussion. One conclusion from that: Librarians are becoming more like software engineers, and many software engineering tasks are moving into territory that's already covered by library science ("metadata is cataloging!"). I hadn't considered this before, but a lot of the issues surrounding the organization and documentation of code are also librarian problems. Have any software companies hired librarians as part of their software engineering divisions? Either way, there's a real need for more communication and training between the two disciplines.

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[rubysixty6.livejournal.com]

That's awesome that you got to go. Interesting about librarians... I wish I knew more about what librarians do exactly.