I would never include everything in my catalogue even if I
would be offered every book published. I want just the best,
the most interesting and valuable. The rest just creates noise
for me and for my library clients. In my catalogue You will
find only quality resources but I would also offer a world-cat
option when that will be possible for free e-books.
I'm somewhat surprised that the libraries working with Google
don't have made marc-records for these electronic editions but
I think they have not yet received their own e-copy.
Sorry about my English
Jan
Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
> 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
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Received on Thu Sep 06 2007 - 05:19:14 EDT