Hiya,
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 22:16, Jan Szczepanski <jan.szczepanski_at_ub.gu.se> wrote:
>>> Because we are in the library business
...
> as I said, building collections for our users, as we always have done.
And your users are ... everyone, right? Even those who think they
might like the stuff you think you shouldn't collect, right?
> A
> place where you just find the best journals and the best books when
> you need it.
But libraries don't fall into that category either?
> Where can I find the Google cataloguing rules so I can compare?
As you well know, the only rule is that there are no rules, only
applicability and algorithms on meta data, the pole opposite of the
library catalog.
As to your other comments about commercial and free resources, I'd
just point out that commercial entities are pushing their stuff onto
Google far more than they are pushing it onto you. :)
Regards,
Alex
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Received on Mon Mar 02 2009 - 06:46:03 EST