Karen Coyle wrote:
|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). ...
|Hmmm. It sounds so simple, doesn't it?
Sounds like OCLC WorldCat to me...
Harvey
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Received on Tue Apr 24 2007 - 10:29:14 EDT