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