On 08/20/2013 08:02 AM, Asaf Bartov wrote:
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Bob Kosovsky <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
It's interesting to me that databases like JSTOR don't use subject
headings except with regard to the discipline of the journal where
the article first appeared.
Isn't that most likely because JSTOR don't have ready access to, or
experience with engaging, a massive volunteer base who would undertake
the work of classifying articles by subject headings?
Wikisource does have access to volunteers, but
the individual articles in Popular Science Monthly
and other journals or magazines aren't being
systematically cataloged and indexed (or
categorized) as they could. This is because our
supply of volunteers is not infinite, even if the
project is open to anybody.
Similarly, Wikipedia is quite large, but only in very
few languages. In most languages it is quite small,
because of the limited number of volunteers.
--
Lars Aronsson ([email protected])
Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/
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