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. __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod (m...@slc.bc.ca) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________