On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:59:52 -0700, Karen Coyle <lists_at_KCOYLE.NET> wrote:
>Jim, note that this is not a record that Google scanned from a library
>-- it's from one of its publisher partners. Any books currently in
>print that you find in Google books are there because of a contract
>between Google and the publisher. I would love to know where Google
>got all of its data from, but as you know many publishers are
>providing MARC data along with their books, so the LC subject headings
>may have come along with the publisher data. Ironically, in that case,
>the data is probably not controlled by the OCLC policy (either the old
>nor the new that was withdrawn).
That's interesting and it makes the record even stranger:
"Graphic Artists Guild handbook : pricing & ethical guidelines."
http://books.google.com/books?id=doHyI6ami8MC&dq=%22motion+pictures%22&lr=&ei=kyyySsGFMInOzQSvk6iVAw
I think you are correct about the 6xx $a and this explains the subjects we
see here, with my suppositions for where the subjects came from:
Art / American / General [BISAC - assigned by publisher]
Art / Commercial / General [BISAC - assigned by publisher]
Art / Design / General [BISAC - assigned by publisher]
Art / Graphic Arts [BISAC - assigned by publisher]
Art / Reference [BISAC - assigned by publisher]
Business & Economics / Business Ethics [BISAC - assigned by publisher]
Law / General [BISAC - assigned by publisher]
Reference / Handbooks & Manuals [BISAC - assigned by publisher]
Artists - Legal status, laws, etc - United States [LC CIP via publisher]
Artists - Professional ethics - United States [LC CIP via publisher]
Graphic arts - United States - Marketing [LC CIP via publisher]
Artists [6xx $a from Worldcat]
Graphic arts [6xx $a from Worldcat]
In this case, Google is only ingesting metadata from anywhere and bringing
it all together into a "bibliographical mash-up." This makes more sense than
what I wrote before about Google reworking the metadata.
This is what is going to happen in the future, whether we like it or not and
there will probably be lots more sources of metadata, not less.
Jim Weinheimer
Received on Fri Sep 18 2009 - 03:09:29 EDT