Bryan:
You bring up some good points here, but my amazement wasn't prompted by
the dumbing-down part, but the subsequent re-creation of statements of
responsibility by algorithmic means. This suggests to me less a
direction than a deep ambivalence about the functionality desired for
WorldCat.
Diane
Bryan Baldus wrote:
On Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:13 PM, Diane I. Hillmann wrote:
This seems so counterintuitive--libraries have been complaining for years that
their vendors have made so little use of the richness of MARC records, and
here's OCLC building systems that use even less.
Unless something has changed recently, it seems to be the trend in several of
the more recent projects. For example, VuFind, Koha, Evergreen, at least by
default or in their demo configurations, use the 1xx heading rather than 245$c
statement of responsibility, like Worldcat.org as described by Adam Schiff.
Also lacking in many of the new projects is the ability to do alphabetical
heading browses like those possible at http://authorities.loc.gov/ and
http://catalog.loc.gov/.
Bryan Baldus
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