Re: Subject Access -- Costs

From: Sperr, Edwin <sperr_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 11:25:43 -0500
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Corey says...

> I wonder if there's anything useful that might come from experiments
with automatically generating
> provisional LCSH based on keyword tags added by users.  This could
provide a starting point
> for LCSH assignment, and the distributed assignment effort of
catalogers might then shift to
> maintenance, revision & assessment.

That's a potential route of exploration.  However, that only works if
sufficient people have stumbled upon the item to tag it in the first
place.  Without subject headings to guide that stumbling, a lot of
things might never get found at all.

Ed Sperr
Received on Thu May 24 2007 - 10:16:26 EDT