> One of the issues is that we are working with the facets we have
> rather than the facets that would be most useful. (Oh shades of
> Rumsfeld!) There may be somewhere an analysis of what facets we would
> LIKE to have...
I agree with the general gist of what Karen said, but I also feel it's important to register an important disagreement. We should be thinking in terms of the metadata that USERS need, not what WE would like to have. One of the reasons that cataloging has landed in such a pickle is that we have very little basic research about what metadata will serve users best in different contexts. Sometimes I get the sense that a lot of people find it much easier to tinker around with existing systems rather than asking whether the systems are workable in the first place.
Steve
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Stephen Paling
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School of Library and Information Studies
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Received on Wed Mar 30 2011 - 21:41:28 EDT