Quoting Tim Spalding <[email protected]>:

Does anyone know:

Is there a "what is a WorldCat record" section? I can't find it. Does
the "original cataloger" concept still apply, or has that gone away?

Tim


Tim, I asked this of one of the authors, and he said he'd take it back to the group. I think there does need to be a definition. (Also note that if you looked at the document yesterday morning, it had changed by the afternoon -- there had been a couple of missing paragraphs... so take another look.)

My question about WorldCat records has to do with whole v. parts -- I can understand that a full MARC record, with holdings, downloaded from WC could be considered a WC record. After that, there is a lot of distance between the full MARC and, say, a citation with an author, title, publisher and date. Where is the line drawn? When does it cease to be a WC record and become just another chunk of bibliographic data floating around cyberspace?

kc

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