On Jun 9, 2006, at 7:49 AM, Steven Carr wrote:
> As far as the catalog fits in...Given this extremely broad (and
> broadening) picture of who the users are (and what languages they
> speak), is it a "catalog" we are looking for, or a search engine that
> does what the catalog has traditionally done, plus the ability to do a
> whole lot more?
This is simliar to the kind of vision Roy Tennant has articulated - where
the traditional catalog functions more as a backbone to a much more
sophisticated search/retrieve process.
If you don't know of Roy Tennant, here's one of his many homepages:
http://roytennant.com/speaker.html
Subscribers might want to look at his presentations:
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/news/presentations/rtennant/2006cil/
and
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/news/presentations/rtennant/2006boston/
Bob Kosovsky, Ph.D., Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Music Division -- The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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Received on Fri Jun 09 2006 - 12:39:29 EDT