Why isn't the answer a central, open, fielded, field-forkable,
reputation-aware MARC wiki?
Seriously, why not? I can see potential problems, but are they more
serious than those with the current system? This is, incidentally,
what I hope Open Library will become. I fear it's going to become
something rather different.
To repeat:
Open: Anyone can access it.
Fielded: All changes are independent of each other by default.
Field-forkable: I like the way Yale cataloged this part, but not the
way they cataloged that; and I'm doing my own thing on the XXX.
Reputation aware: No anonymous edits and all edits are public, so you
can decide to trust edits by Harvard, but review all edits by Yale.
MARC: Because it's ubiquitous.
Wiki: Obviously.
Tim
Received on Fri Mar 28 2008 - 12:28:44 EDT