Rob Styles wrote:
>> And persuade
>> everybody to use these words instead of the latter.
>
> At the risk of causing offence - this is the nub problem. The internet
> community at large, working with REST, SOAP, XML, RDF and so on have no
> desire to persuade you, or anyone else, to do anything.
>
No, but the standards being used have to be persuasive out of their own,
by their effectiveness, ease of use, and omnipresence.
So, where's the standard we can replace MARC numbers with, to
ease our talking and enlighten catalog users?
Roy Tennant, a while ago, has looked at DC metadata in various
places to see how interoperable they are. He was shocked into
repealing his earlier death sentence for MARC...
"MARC Must Die." Library Journal, v. 127, no 17 (Oct. 15, 2002) p. 26
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA250046.html
"Metadata's Bitter Harvest" July 15, 2004
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA434443.html
B.Eversberg
Received on Wed Jan 17 2007 - 05:04:21 EST