Article Review: “Records management and data management: closing the gap”

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On 6 August 1991, Tim Berners-Lee portray a ”WorldWideWeb” as a project that has a purpose on allowing links to be made to any information anywhere. As for the libraries, web is known as a network based system to be pressed into service and yet common tools for communication. Early library web normally contain several document created in HTML (HyperText Markup Language which is a format based on SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). Hypertext is known as easy way to publish a system of links. It usually uses to inform a library hours and services and information on how to access OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue).
CGI common getaway interface is a web server that has been developed by National Center for Supercomputing Application (NCSA). It has a specification that let HTML content to be created with passion. Besides, it also has an arrangement that allowed external application to be wired into the web. The main factor for the web success is CGI offer an interactive experience and give an opportunity to plugging in application that predated the web. Two earliest libraries related CGI program were CNIDR's Z39.50 Getaway (Zgate) and an interface called “Webcat” from the University of Waterloo. The “Webcat” responsible in supplying a Web layer for the library’s GEAC system. In 1996, SIRSI introduced a web option for its OPAC and eventually most othe ILS (Integrated Library System) vendors would roll out a web interface to the catalogue, a class of application that universally referred known as Webcatt655r4r5. However, the web-based interfaces did not formerly a reliant program in library system and yet not the only option for accessing the catalogue.
System librarians is always been called on to judge the potential of ...

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...e. System librarians have spent plenty of their time on learning how to manage and extend application by library vendor’s development team. Consequently, system librarians will maintain specialized software for the library’s user community. The mainstreaming of technical services does not mean the libraries will continue to have exclusive automation needs. In addition, the Web encourages technologies in handling a problem. The web has changed a role of the system librarian from dealing with a commonness of technologies to work with a huge palette of largely mainstream technologies. The instant satisfaction that comes with the web browsing and high level of web design skills has required the system librarians follow the latest trends. The web has moved the system librarian to the closer experience to the IT worker in other organization by allowing the use of toolkit.

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