> catalogs into disregard and obsolescence, but full-text search, by its
> nature, has no way to do WEMI and FRBR. But it has some ways to find
> stuff that leave catalogs hopelessly behind.
There is no reason you can't have a system that indexes full text and supports full text search, AND has structured metadata ala FRBR. Supporting fielded searching as well as full text searching, or supporting searching that boosts hits in the result set when they match in certain fields over body text matches. And grouping or otherwise displaying items that belong to the same work in the result set. Etc.
It's just that getting structured metadata, particular with regard to WEMI or other relationships between items, accross the whole corpus of tens (hundreds?) of millions of published items , is a herculean task. We have been the community trying to do that (for a hundred years or so), with, in fact, pretty limited success.
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