Karen Coyle wrote:
>
> So if nothing else, we need to move to a format that doesn't keep us
from adding to our metadata record.
But the potential of MARC is still far from exhausted! Why
do tags have to be numeric only and why are capital
letters not usable as subfield codes? Get rid of these
restrictions. Anything non-MARC will have a much longer and
harder time to become mainstream.
OTOH, it isn't really the format we should focus on but the content.
MARC record content is too terse. Add ToC data, at least, and
figure out how to do some useful ranking based on that.
AND make browsable indexes a feature of NGC. Our structured
data makes them possible, search engines can't do it.
B.Eversberg
Received on Wed May 23 2007 - 07:58:40 EDT