On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Ere Maijala <ere.maijala_at_helsinki.fi> wrote:
> This is just to say that most of our
> user (staff) interfaces don't do a very good job with the data entry.
This pretty much sums up my confusion about this thread. Just like
your CMS doesn't require your content creators to write up the SQL
inserts into the RDBMS, just like MS Word doesn't require the document
author to manually insert formatting codes, the UI for cataloging
should be able abstract away some of what we're talking about here
(/and/ clean things up upon submission, if need be).
The subfields, indicators, fixed fields, etc. are *not* the problem
(well, any more than MARC itself is a problem). The granularity is
good. Even if we're talking about things that *shouldn't* take a heap
of time to catalog, the granularity is useful. If the interface for
adding this data is the bottleneck, then fix the interface, fixing the
container is a completely different issue.
-Ross.
Received on Mon Jun 07 2010 - 10:44:48 EDT