Yes, re-inventing the wheel can be tedious. Especially when one forgets
what the wheel is supposed to do or doesn't understand its function in
the first place.
Michael Mitchell
Technical Services Librarian
Brazosport College
Lake Jackson, TX
michael.mitchell at brazosport.edu
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Jones
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 10:03 AM
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] FRBR WEMI and identifiers
One thing that's puzzled me about the Semantic Web is how it's supposed
to work once one gets beyond well-established product identifiers like
ISBNs and into the realm of competing dynamic vocabularies. It seems to
me that the closer you get to perfect mapping between vocabulary
terms--surely the ultimate goal--the more you undermine the argument for
maintaining separate vocabularies in the first place: the work involved
in maintaining the mappings between these constantly changing
vocabularies would seem to exceed the work involved in maintaining a
single shared vocabulary. But maybe I'm missing something.
Ed Jones
Received on Thu Nov 12 2009 - 11:42:00 EST