Not in this class, at least. I've somehow managed to mostly avoid it in other classes, but it's def out there

Thank you Caitlin, this is the reaction I was missing when I came back from lunch in high dudgeon

(Look, I too have created metadata for this sort of thing. But A) I was a project tech, and B) I'm not bringing it up as an example of good metadata, especially not good MARC metadata of all things)

Huh. I *have* found it weird how much profs in my program (esp in my metadata class) bring up TEI given that it's more about marking-up documents than encoding metadata. I'd been assuming it was because it was another LAM-adjacent schema, but it sounds like the connection may run deeper. Thanks!

You insult my beloved friend, the 6hr train trip to Boston? Where I get a wide, comfy seat & free wifi, never have to go through TSA, and am always free to move about the cabin??

You cannot run the basic infrastructures of a functioning society- healthcare to education-on systems that cut out human empathy & negotiation. So we have to reassert over and over again that the problems aren’t glitches or errors—even big ones. The problems are fundamental, systematic, endemic.