Geek of the Week - Cliff Lynch
       
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       06/04/1993 - Cliff Lynch
       
       Carl Malamud interviews Cliff Lynch, one of the most thoughtful
       participants in the race to move libraries and publishers onto
       electronic publishing platforms. Lynch received his Ph.D. in database
       systems and is currently the Director of Library Automation for the
       University of California. Lynch's most amazing accomplishment is the
       amount of travel he puts in, far outstripping anybody this interviewer
       has ever met in his ability to attend any and all events where a
       consensus needs to be forged. His tireless activities have been
       instrumental in bringing the networking and library communities
       together.
       
       In this interview, Cliff Lynch discusses online publishing, looking
       at the issue of SGML as a markup language and examining the question
       of presentation integrity versus the desire for revisable form
       documents. Lynch also discusses the Z39.50 protocol, the scaling of
       very large databases, the democratization of publishing, and the role
       of the Coalition for Networked Information.
       
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