Karen Coyle wrote:
> 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
>
To which Harvey Hahn replied,
Sounds like OCLC WorldCat to me...
Some of y'all may not have noticed the new feature on Worldcat that I
was just exploring last week, but there is now a button for Cite This
Item, which then cites it in 5 popular formats, which can be copied and
pasted into a bibliography. Definitely moving in the direction Karen
Coyle is hoping for.
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Received on Tue Apr 24 2007 - 11:33:45 EDT