Cory Rockliff writes
> If we're talking about the descriptive drudgery that takes up far
> too much of catalogers' time today, I *hope* there's no future.
> Other skills in the cataloger's toolkit (classification, subject
> analysis, authority work) continue to be relevant, I think.
I have done a lot of work in this area, but I don't need the
help of catalogers for it. I need subject experts and I need
a good computer system that the subject experts can use.
There are a great many value-added services that can be constructed
on the web, based on information that is already on the web. Think
for example, about a system that would archive professional emails
lists. Such a system could indentify contributions made by
individuals across lists. It would try to build threads by real
subject rather than by email subject. It could visualize the
relations between lists by topics, words used, contributors. It
could archive the contents in a re-purposable form etc. This is just
an example off the top of my head.
Catalogers can't build such systems unless they know an
instructional computer language and a bit of system administration.
Cheers,
Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel
http://authorclaim.org/profile/pkr1
skype: thomaskrichel
Received on Thu Apr 22 2010 - 18:51:20 EDT