http://www.corprew.org/blog/2005/12/15/on-librarians-and-hackfests/ (dis)information organization Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:20:33 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.corprew.org/blog/2005/12/15/on-librarians-and-hackfests/comment-page-1/#comment-130 Richard Akerman Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:07:04 +0000 http://www.corprew.org/2005/12/15/on-librarians-and-hackfests/#comment-130 I agree with your comments generally, and in particular with the idea that most librarians will get more value out of scripting abilities than hard-core programmer/developer/coder skills. I would however point out that the reason I selected that particular diagram was not to illustrate software engineering, it was just to show that there are more boxes in the process than "business person/librarian" and "coder". A diagram with three boxes would have served my needs just as well. It's not really fair to pick on IBM - they have lots more complicated diagrams that show all of the aspects they mentioned. I just picked the simplest one that demonstrated that there are many roles in the process of developing a system. I agree with your comments generally, and in particular with the idea that most librarians will get more value out of scripting abilities than hard-core programmer/developer/coder skills. I would however point out that the reason I selected that particular diagram was not to illustrate software engineering, it was just to show that there are more boxes in the process than “business person/librarian” and “coder”. A diagram with three boxes would have served my needs just as well. It’s not really fair to pick on IBM – they have lots more complicated diagrams that show all of the aspects they mentioned. I just picked the simplest one that demonstrated that there are many roles in the process of developing a system.

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