Re: What LibraryThing means to OPACs

From: Bernhard Eversberg <ev_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:11:08 +0200
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
K.G: Schneider wrote:
>
> I would like to see a RefThing that allowed me to catalog and share
> citations for the many articles I use for my work. RefWorks may be stuffy
> and a bit stodgy when compared to LT, but it does *that.* On the other hand,
> a single-format application still can be very popular: look at Flickr.
>
For the future of cataloging, RDA is now looming big on the horizon.
That's a standard doesn't talk of books anymore, or music or whatsitnot,
it talks of nothing else but "resources". Which, in the way it's being
used, is a synonym for "thing". Alex was right in suggesting a
"ThingThing".


B. Eversberg
Received on Thu Jun 22 2006 - 10:20:51 EDT