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Following from last week’s post about the Snarkmarket Book Project, here’s even stiffer evidence of the sudden increase in mainstream attention that real content management has garnered.  In Digital Archivists, Now in Demand, the New York Times Jobs section talks about our “nascent” discipline of Digital Asset Management and discusses the career possibilities in the field.

A friend of mine sent me a link to the article asking “Is this the kind of thing your company works on? Sounds interesting.” It will be really amusing when everyone talks about this stuff like they have always dealt with it.

In a clever marketing move, The Burton Group have held a wake in honor of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).  They’ve also set up one of those cute custom shortened URLs: http://tinyurl.com/SOAWake. From the announcement:

[...] It’s time to declare that SOA is dead and move on to more the practical matter of bringing up its offspring: Services.

This great find was brought to our attention by Ben O’Steen’s twitter feed.

To give you a sense of the sudden traction that our area of expertise has deservedly gained, check out the Snarkmarket Book Project which was posted only yesterday. It has already garnered over 100 pitches of subject matter for the “New Liberal Arts” and more than a third of them concern Digital Curation and/or Internet Archivists.

The Librarian Avengers in the crowd will especially relish this comment by Matt Thompson:

“Library science” is a fusty old term that increasingly fails to fit an ever-expanding and ever-more-important range of skills. “Knowledge management”is weighed down by the awful word “management.” In Matt University, we’d rebrand it “knowledge mastery” or something similarly grandiose. After all, this is becoming critical. How do we capture, structure, sift and preserve enormous bodies of information?