Our thinking is at a very early stage, but having explored the potential to develop a model to render libraries viable and sustainable into the future against a backdrop of significant cuts in the public funding they receive, and in keeping with the library ethos (i.e. providing ‘access to all’), we have begun to consider whether there could be a role for the blockchain in facilitating the exchange of knowledge and know-how online…
In particular, we’ve begun to question whether it might be valuable/feasible to introduce an ‘oracle machine’ that would refer knowledge producers and consumers to a ‘librarian’ to add value to what is otherwise readily accomplished by corporate search engines (save that they only provide you with partial search by virtue of their corporate underpinnings)…so, some way in which to re-introduce what we’re currently terming #humansearch - an ethical spanner to lob into the world of inhuman search…
OK - so, it’s only very “early” thinking, and we might have this completely wrong! So, that’s why we’d love to talk to some people who really ‘get’ this stuff - thanks, Annemarie