On Thursday 06 April 2006 4:24 am, Matthias Steffens wrote: > On Wed, 5-Apr-2006 10:27 -0400, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> > Yes, that's a very nice feature. However, when I'm writing a paper, 95% > of the cited references do already exist in my bibliographic database > and I want to use these (and not a copy from somewhere else) since I > know that I've verified my own entries for correctness (multiple > times). The same cannot be said for any remotely fetched data and I'd > need to check each entry for correctness. > (If you wonder why I make late entries into some of the discussions - it's because I am not up a 2:30 am) Yes I agree, we can not assume that library catalogues are correct - even the sainted US LOC. I was told recently the a common library cataloguing practice, and one used my university, is that when a new book comes in to be catalogue, the cataloguer, does a world-wide library search and copies the first cataloguing entry found. Now if they all do this all the libraries have copies of the very first cataloguing entry produced for that book by X from library Y, and X may not be all the skilled at writing them because he or she mostly spends their time copying other libraries' efforts. This also partly explains why book on the same topics are not always together on the shelves. Also the libraries I have used often have problems collecting the books of one author under the same author listing. So you have books by Smith Fred, S Smith Fred, S (1934- ) Smith Fred, S (1934-1987) (Which will look poor in your Dissertation, and be even worse if you assumed they were different people) So the point is that collecting internet cataloguing data will not be a magic corrector of data. Useful, but it will still need checking by the user. David -- ------------------- David N. Wilson Co-Project Lead for the Bibliographic OpenOffice Project http://bibliographic.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
