Indeed I am _not_ suggesting a reduction in precision, it is the
accuracy of these rules, learnt over many years, that is the value that
we could be getting out into the net at large.
Unfortunately, the very things that make Marc (as a spoken, or human
language) efficient and precise between experts also form a substantial
barrier to entry for those outside-the-know.
Rob Styles
Technical Lead, Talis
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Bernhard Eversberg
> Sent: 16 January 2007 17:53
> To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] coyle/hillman article from dlib
>
> Rob Styles 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? There are two things to consider, leaving
> aside the massive task of re-education:
>
> 1. The brevity and precision of Marc-Speak will be hard to rival, esp.
> by verbal XML tags. They tend to be unbearably twisted or
> unpronounceable / unlearnable, esp. with upper/lower case.
> 2. Verbal tags are language-bound, not international. Marc-Speak is.
>
> This is not to say there cannot be a more efficient numbering of
> data elements, but it has to be codes, not words, or you lose those
> two big advantages. But feel free to make suggestions!
> I think it's just a presentation issue! Anyone can display a marc
> record with verbal designations instead of tags to make it
> understood. (The risk being, however, that people think they
> understand when in fact they don't because they lack the background
> knowledge necessary for precise understanding. Or are you saying
> we better get rid of precision? Your posting suggested otherwise.)
>
>
> B.Eversberg
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