Re: Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want

From: Deborah Fritz <deborah_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:17:03 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Diane Hillman wrote:

> I'd also like to point out that XSLT, though fine for one 
> time or on-the-fly transformations, is not a good basis for 
> improving data over time, where you want to be able to store 
> changes and track the provenance of the change (was it a 
> machine or a person who did this? 
> what was the process? when was it done?)  In other words, in 
> order to learn from the work we do in matching, improving, 
> etc., and in order to share those improvements, we need to 
> look beyond just changing the display, to figuring out how to 
> manage the data for use outside a local context. 

At the risk of sounding really naive, are you talking about something like a
webpage (wiki page?) for each data set (record) that describes each level of
a WEM (work/expression/manifestion)?

Deborah
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MARC Database Consultant
The MARC of Quality
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