>For that example above, I can imagine that an initial cataloger ignores the >new prefatory material and considers it a manifestation of an existing >expression. Later, someone else comes along with the same book in hand, and >they find this established record in the great cooperative cataloging >environment in the sky, but they'd really like to model it as an aggregation >to draw out meaning that their user community needs. And they send their >changes back to the great cooperative cataloging environment in the sky, and >the first cataloger's system automatically gets them.
And if the changes are not a fit for what the first cataloger's user community needs? Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com
