In praise of reckless enthusiasm

[Terry Ehling <ehling@cornell.edu>]

Joe Esposito endorses unruly expectations and reckless 
enthusiasm:

http://bit.ly/5DXw3p

"It appears to be the rule that a reckless investment to preserve 
a practice or institution ultimately yields very little in the 
way of serendipitous outcomes, but crazy projects designed to 
bring new capacity on board may come to delight us all.

"[M]y personal reckless enthusiasm:  to build infrastructure that 
enables an unmediated, direct connection between scholars and 
scholarly materials.  For example, there is a huge need for a new 
order of bibliographical records, which are transparent to 
end-users and easily integrated into machine-to-machine 
communications.  Such records will be very expensive to create; 
no one knows how they will ultimately earn their keep."

terry ehling
scholarly communications strategist
library information technologies
project euclid | cornell university library