Weinheimer Jim schrieb:
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> Yet, I feel that there is--or should be--a certain level of dumbing down that we should not transgress. Titles?! Still, many students that I have worked with do not understand searching by "author" or "title" or "subject". This is what we get with Google.
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Well, are we to present data in an entirely amorphic way, no labels
tacked on at all, just some presumably relevant chunks of text? Sounds a
bit close to ISBD though as well as a Google result list.
> It's a difficult moment, but I think Alex is right: the first step is to come to some kind of mutual understanding--not agreement--over these different concepts.
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As I said, one might look at the list of RDA Core Elements
for a start and try to twist it into something the average
person may perhaps warm to. If that turns out impossible, then what?
(This is not to say we should store data that way, of course)
B.Eversberg
Received on Fri Jun 25 2010 - 07:20:32 EDT