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Open Meta Tools Make It Big

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-who-watches-the-meta-watchers dept.

Morgahastu writes "Byte.com has a great article about open meta tools and open software in general: "After more than 10 years of open-software development in the scientific community, open software now holds a preeminent place in the operation of the computing community. The three products I have written about simply scratch the surface of the powerful tools available. OpenLDAP and OAI both enable a wide variety of sharing and automated access.""

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  1. To a man with a hammer... by Raedwald · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... everything looks like a nail. Quoth the author:

    Staying within the broad definition of resource directory, resources for computers as well as people can be defined. This could also be used as a powerful library card file replacement, where books and other types of information sources could be defined, and access enabled through the powerful search functions.

    Use LDAP as a library card file? Perhaps you could, but that sounds like a classic database application to me. Powerful search functions? Like SQL?

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  2. We need a standard by tanveer1979 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Its good that these meta tools are making progress, but what we need are real standards, and they should be open source, currently there is a lot of confusion, well its true that open source is about choice, but many times too much choice becomes a pain

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