Jonathan said:
>Rather than say 'fixed fields are meant for the computer, variable
>fields for direct display and/or indexing', I think it probably makes
>sense to distinguish between transcribed fields, and fields whose
values >are taken from a finite controlled vocabulary.
Happy to see you exempted LCSH.
LCSH is an excellent example of an attempt to make a controlled
vocabulary directly understandable and acceptable, perhaps too much so
in the migration now at "African American".
Would that the media terms so well approximated common usage.
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