As this list is about NEXT generation.
> it effectively: better filters. Cataloging, if everyone's work were
> coordinated, could be vastly more efficient than today, that is, if
> everybody really and truly followed normal, genuine standards. Today
I shall pick one small statement and show that "standards" do not do
justice to the data or the users.
If only the "professionals" looked out at the world beyond and asked
themselves what do people want to find.
Do the users really want a limited subset, no they are more likely to
want the right subset.
there is a difference. a standard chooses a subset with arbitrary
rules that may have more leaning to the cost of cataloguing than the
usability of the catalogue.
A fulltext ocr that google can see will enable direct finding of
information for anybody.
An example from today, I have a trade book by a company called Barber
Colman who made gear hobbing machines
taking a description of one very special type of hob "mutilated-tooth
single position hob" putting that into google took me straight to the
patent, no messing with any catalogers view of the information and few
would have the domain knowledge probably.
One thing that library cataloging "standards" specify is only
catalogue the first (main author/s). a travesty in a book where
sections are all by leading authors.
Dave Caroline
Received on Thu Nov 08 2012 - 06:46:13 EST