Casey Bisson wrote:
> This is chicken and egg of easily linkable/indexable/finable catalogs.
>
> Citation analysis (of the Page Rank variety) won't work until we get
> a good body of links, and we won't get a good body of links until
> people realize they _can_ and _should_ link to our catalogs.
Somehow it doesn't make sense to me for people to link to our catalogs
-- it makes more sense that there should be a way to link to a
bibliographic record which, in turn, could be used to locate the item in
a library. OK, maybe I need to back up a bit. I'm thinking about
citations -- footnotes, end-notes, bibliographies. Citations aren't
about an individual copy in a single library, they are about the
published material which may exist in many different locations. So I
need to be able to make a link to ... a canonical bibliographic record.
Which has to have an identifier. Or some identifiers. And needs to know
its relationship to other bibliographic records (editions, reprintings).
Then I want my word processor to be able to automagically download and
format that bibliographic record into a citation, keeping the necessary
identifiers and able to reformat the citation according to various sets
of rules. So my document will have hot links to the bib data on the web,
which will be able to query ?something? to find actual copies in
libraries and bookstores. I should also be able to see what else links
to that bib record: other writings, reviews.
Hmmm. It sounds so simple, doesn't it?
kc
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