Karen Coyle wrote:
> There's another digitized copy of Cutter at:
> http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-1048
>
Isn't it just cute how Cutter himself is now illustrating the
need for collocation (now see under "FRBRization") in the digital
environment. So many digitized editions, no collocation at all, not even
within Google. (If you happen on one edition, it doesn't point you to
any others.)
The new environment glaringly does not
"... assist in the choice of a book ... as to its edition ..."
(Cutter's Object 3G)
So it seems to make sense to include the E-editions into
catalogs and thus subject them to proper FRBRization? But does
it make sense to include them into _every_ local catalog? Is
it feasible to include selected E-editions into local catalogs
in a more than haphazard way? There are many large and small
digitization projects the world over!
Does anything else make sense than a world catalog of e-editions,
collaboratively produced? IOW, an extended WorldCat, because what
else makes sense but to be able to collocate E-editions with paper
editions. Currently, you enter
cutter "rules for a dictionary catalog"
into worldcat.org and get only the paper editions.
And _if_ WorldCat starts doing that, and Digitization proceeds at the
current (accelerating) pace, how much sense will local catalogs still
make for anyone? But the NGC idea was, I believe, not aiming at local
catalogs anyway. It seems the quest for it _must_ lead to their
marginalization if not abolition.
B.Eversberg
Received on Thu Sep 06 2007 - 03:12:48 EDT