On 07/26/2011 08:07 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> I wish a next-generation library catalog would include a field for
> date, not the date of the publication, but the date the thing was
> conceived. I'm tired of seeing works containing the dialogs of Plato >
and having a date of 1986 or whatever. IMHO, dumb!
>
I like this idea. Perhaps an element for a FRBR Work record?
Of course, in the current climate toward creation of rich metadata, it
might be a hard sell to the bean counters.
[sigh]
- mt
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