On Jan 16, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
>> Get rid of Marc-Speak! Sure that's going to be really hard, but as
>> long as we use
>> 100$a in our day-to-day language to mean an author's name there
>> will be
>> a barrier between the catalogue and the rest of the world.
>
> But how to speak instead?
Speak the language of the users and other computer systems. If we
want to share our data/information with other people and their
computers, then we need to speak their language(s).
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Eric Lease Morgan
University Libraries of Notre Dame
Received on Tue Jan 16 2007 - 13:28:56 EST