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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: dicebourbon on April 28, 2010, 01:16:32 AM

Title: Dublin Core
Post by: dicebourbon on April 28, 2010, 01:16:32 AM
I thought Laurie's incredulousness that Tom had never heard of Dublin Core (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Core (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Core)) was hilarious. Why would anybody but librarians (or Dublin residents) have heard of it?

Incidentally, does anyone else who doesn't live anywhere near WFMU get a little thrill when some obscure thing about their hometown is mentioned? I'm thinking specifically about when Brian from Columbus (where I'm also from) was called a Columba-dummy by PBR, who also name-checked Stache's and Little Brothers.
Title: Re: Dublin Core
Post by: Christina on April 28, 2010, 09:39:47 AM
Fart, I thought this was a thread about Irish punk bands.
Title: Re: Dublin Core
Post by: Mike from Western Maine on April 28, 2010, 04:21:54 PM
these guys were really good

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrJIgBK1uN4[/youtube]
Title: Re: Dublin Core
Post by: Steve in North Hollywood on April 29, 2010, 05:21:40 AM
Fart, I thought this was a thread about Irish punk bands.

Yeah, I remember Laurie mentioning it and I thought she was referring to like The Pogues, The Waterboys, Dropkick Murphys any kind of celtic-based rock.  Ah well, we live and we learn.
Title: Re: Dublin Core
Post by: Big Plastic Head on April 29, 2010, 12:06:25 PM
No reason we can't change the thread to what we ALL thought it was going to be.

OY!
Title: Re: Dublin Core
Post by: Christina on April 29, 2010, 12:14:18 PM
Irish hardcore was over the day Shane McGowan had his teeth fixed.
Title: Re: Dublin Core
Post by: dicebourbon on April 29, 2010, 02:54:22 PM
I'm quite pleased with the turn this thread has taken.
Title: Re: Dublin Core
Post by: B_Buster on April 29, 2010, 04:22:49 PM
Irish hardcore was over the day Shane McGowan had his teeth fixed.

Shane McGowan has teeth?!
Title: Re: Dublin Core
Post by: Big Plastic Head on April 29, 2010, 07:24:05 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qUmcNF3XAw
Title: Re: Dublin Core
Post by: Kim Kelly on April 29, 2010, 07:39:14 PM
DUblin Core is the most extensible metadata standard, you better recognize.
Title: Re: Dublin Core
Post by: JustSheaNo on April 29, 2010, 08:46:53 PM
Fart, I thought this was a thread about Irish punk bands.

Awwww Gawwwd and the Dublin is for Dublin, Ohio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Core).

Heartbroken.  Did anyone else hear the Irish Hip Hop premium from last year's marathon?
Title: Re: Dublin Core
Post by: Christina on April 29, 2010, 09:12:47 PM
Irish hardcore was over the day Shane McGowan had his teeth fixed.

Shane McGowan has teeth?!

He does now. It's most disconcerting.
Title: Re: Dublin Core
Post by: Mike from Western Maine on April 29, 2010, 11:11:00 PM
Either they came pre-yellowed, or he smokes even more than I thought.

(http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/36533315/Shane+MacGowan+With+Teeth.jpg)
Title: Re: Dublin Core
Post by: Kim Kelly on April 30, 2010, 01:49:06 AM
yeesh, I think he might have looked better without those giant horsey veneers.
Title: Re: Dublin Core
Post by: ben on April 30, 2010, 02:07:28 AM
I thought it was a reference to Billy Jam's premium from 2009 of Irish hip-hop.
Title: Re: Dublin Core
Post by: padthaikai on May 02, 2010, 09:41:11 PM
As a library school student ("information studies" gets too many blank looks when I mention it) I both support and cringe at the mention of Dublin Core on the Best Show.
Title: Re: Dublin Core
Post by: Scot on May 03, 2010, 06:48:30 AM
As a LIS graduate and library employee, I mostly just cringed at the mention. Maybe because as a public library employee there's been not a whisper of Dublin Core by any of my associates in the year I've been working?

Title: Re: Dublin Core
Post by: Apatche on May 03, 2010, 01:08:15 PM
I too am an LIS grad and librarian and cringed mightily at Laurie's comment. 
Title: Re: Dublin Core
Post by: masterofsparks on May 03, 2010, 01:16:00 PM
Incidentally, does anyone else who doesn't live anywhere near WFMU get a little thrill when some obscure thing about their hometown is mentioned? I'm thinking specifically about when Brian from Columbus (where I'm also from) was called a Columba-dummy by PBR, who also name-checked Stache's and Little Brothers.

That was a funny call, though in PBR's defense the caller was kind of a dummy.
Title: Re: Dublin Core
Post by: folksnake on May 03, 2010, 08:39:41 PM
I, too work at a library--for 29 years now--and have never heard anyone mention Dublin Core. Course, I work on the bookmobile, which is sort of the U-Boat of the library system, and we don't tend to hang with anyone who might mention it. Which works for me.
Title: Re: Dublin Core
Post by: Christina on May 03, 2010, 09:06:50 PM
Course, I work on the bookmobile, which is sort of the U-Boat of the library system ...

Just when you think a thread's played out ... you gotta say what this is all about. Is Jurgen Prochnow your boss?
Title: Re: Dublin Core
Post by: folksnake on May 03, 2010, 10:00:46 PM
The comparison is a bit dated now, but still applicable...when I started out, the administration hated the thought that we were out there doing our thing, and they weren't able to stand over us to make sure we were doing our thing. They were always suspicious that we were simply parked under a tree somewhere, reading.

The same thing was true of submarines when they first came along--Admirals hated that they couldn't control them better, that once they left port, they were gone. So in general, we bookmobilers stand apart from the rest of the library...and miss out on cool stuff like Dublin Core  :)

Title: Re: Dublin Core
Post by: Christina on May 04, 2010, 09:49:50 AM
They were always suspicious that we were simply parked under a tree somewhere, reading.


Pbbbt. I used to be a book buyer and now am w/a publisher, and when people hear what I do, they'll often go "oh, how fun! You get to sit around and read all day!" Yeah. Oh, if you only knew.
Title: Re: Dublin Core
Post by: Steve of Bloomington on May 04, 2010, 04:43:01 PM
I've heard Dublin Core mentioned in Semantic Web/RDF contexts, but that RDF book was so tedious my attention wandered off to other things.