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From: "Jonathan Rochkind" <rochkind_at_JHU.EDU>
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Received: 5/24/2007 9:14:48 AM
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 dont' think so. A wiki is not the appropriate technology for a store
>of structured data.
All of this makes the unproven assumption that 'structured data' is actually required. I don't accept that assumption.
dan
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Dan Lester, Boise, Idaho, USA
Received on Fri May 25 2007 - 15:45:26 EDT