This prompts me to make a general observation about RDA: I've found the
best way I can understand it whenever I come across something puzzling
like that is to remember Wittgenstein's quote: Philosophy leaves
everything as it is. RDA, for the most part, leaves cataloguing as it
is, but expresses it
In our traditional metadata, be it coded in any flavor of MARC or other
formats, we lack something that is of paramount importance for Google's
success: a syndetic mechanism that would link bib records with other
bib records in a way that software can make use of. (Karen and others
have stated
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In our traditional metadata, be it coded in any flavor of MARC or other
formats, we lack something that is of paramount importance for Google's
success: a syndetic mechanism that would link bib records with other
bib
I'm confused by the claim that the predominant use of a manifestation
identifier would be for subject access. Oh wait, I see, you mean using a
particular manifestation as a subject in 65x?
The thing is, once we understand that access points serve as
identifiers, we understand that we _need_ such
Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
I've talked about this before too, and come to very similar conclusions
as Jim.
In my opinion, the new name for access point is really identifier.
What we have been using access points as IS in fact identifiers.
Although once we recognize this, we also see some of the
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I've reflected on this at some length, and have decided that my opinion of
access points is not just nit-picking semantics. It's something
Prejsnar, Mark wrote:
This is a good and important point, and only needs one clarification: the
concept and phrase access point actually arose BEFORE the card
catalog (pre-1890), when all catalogs were a series of printed books. I
suspect that few people realize how extremely recent the
I've talked about this before too, and come to very similar conclusions
as Jim.
In my opinion, the new name for access point is really identifier.
What we have been using access points as IS in fact identifiers.
Although once we recognize this, we also see some of the problems with
access points
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Prejsnar, Mark wrote:
This is a good and important point, and only needs one clarification: the
concept and phrase access point actually arose BEFORE the card
catalog (pre
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