I sooooo appreciate the technical feedback (and hope there is more from
the many of you who have this knowledge).
So what might work for a pilot would be an open web-interfaced database
that provides a means for users to enter new headings and citation data,
provides means for self-selected catalogers to edit those headings as
well as add cross-references, control field information, and update the
citations as needed. It would need to have some security built in to
filter out input that would disrupt the system (any executable code, for
instance) as well as a web-accessible search/display function and the
capability to export the data in text and MARC formats. It should also
provide some instruction to help guide both novice and expert users.
Feedback anyone?
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
>[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Rochkind
>Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 8:15 AM
>To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
>Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Authority maintenance (was Subject costs)
>
>I think this is a great idea for a project, but I do not think
>that a wiki is appropriate to demonstrate this. You need a
>real database environment. You can't do much with controlled
>metadata on a wiki.
>
>"I'm ignorant enough that the technical question of whether
>said data in a wiki setting could be constructed in such a way
>to allow export of MARC in a format that can be readily
>imported into a library ILS is possible. "
>
>I don't' think so. A wiki is not the appropriate technology for
>a store of structured data.
>
>This project also reminds me of William Denton's ideas with
>"open FRBR".
>http://www.openfrbr.org/
>
>As far as setting up a project like this, and the technical
>infrastructure for it, there's only so much we can fit in in
>our 'free time', I'm afraid. This is not a very difficult
>project really, as a pilot, but I wish there were someone
>applying for grants for it and such. I wish we had more
>research in this area going on from library schools, which are
>the logical place to house such research, but library schools
>seem entirely uninterested in real world library metadata
>issues these days.
>
>Jonathan
>
>
Received on Thu May 24 2007 - 09:42:39 EDT