Actually, I think there are more factors involved than just powerful
technology and limited imaginations. Consider organizational
structures--the relationships which national library CIP programs are
based on are not between an author and a cataloger, but between
publishing companies and a
Stephen Hearn wrote;
Actually, I think there are more factors involved than just powerful
technology and limited imaginations. Consider organizational
structures--the relationships which national library CIP programs are
based on are not between an author and a cataloger, but between
Weinheimer Jim wrote:
The biggest problem, which is even more important now than before is:
why would a website creator or outside, for-profit publisher want to
cooperate at all if this record is placed in some stinky, old library
catalog? Huge problems are easy to point to.
Just to note on
I agree that pushing out cataloging doesn't result in consistent data
records, but that's not really what I was suggesting. My suggestion was
that it might be possible to push out the assigning of unique
identifiers to be used in description and access records, if the process
of doing so could be
Karen Coyle wrote:
 Just to note on the idea of pushing out the creation of cataloging to
 the creator, that was the original impetus behind Dublin Core
     http://dublincore.org/about/history/
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 and it has failed, even though it promised to make web searching more
 accurate (not put
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