Quoting Benjamin A Abrahamse babra...@mit.edu:
I want to thank Benjamin for keeping an open mind about Open Library,
in spite of its variance from real library practice. In my mind it
isn't useful to try to determine whether Open Library is right or
wrong, but to observe a different and
Weinheimer Jim schrieb:
This is a description of a very interesting meeting over metadata, with
many groups involved.
http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2010/01/google-exposes-book-metadata-privates.html
Most edifying as well as sobering indeed.
Do we conclude that ONIX should replace MARC?
Does that mean alphabetical index displays of names, titles, subjects
etc. can safely be considered dead?
I, for one, happen to like them. As a user, I always find it frustrating
whenever I can't sort a list according to some transparent logic, be it
alphabetical or chronological or by another
Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
snip
Karen Coyle said in that meeting:
... the team tried to figure out when alphabetical sorting was really
required, and the answer turned out to be 'never'.
Does that mean alphabetical index displays of names, titles, subjects
etc. can safely be considered dead? We've
Browsing by title may not be that important today with keyword retrieval since
people should be able to sort in other ways. I believe that is the only place
for non-filing indicators (other than series titles), but I may be wrong?
They were only talking about books at that meeting, weren't
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