I have read the FA (and some of the report referred to) and could not find
evidence of what you say. Could you please be more specific about what
you mean?
Laurence S. Creider
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Karen Coyle wrote:
Stephen Hearn wrote:
To me the hard part is ensuring consistency, first of terminology, but
more fundamentally of granularity and categorization. The great virtue
of MARC/AACR/LSCH cataloging is that it is as consistent as it is across
many catalogs and institutions and disciplines.
There is actual research being done on the consistency issue:
http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2008/11/11/is-consistent-metadata-worthwhile/
Some of the consistency problems of the past can be tackled with greater
computing capability.
(And I advise readers to RTFA - that is, Read The Friggin' Article -
before replying!)
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