Hi
There seems to be a general trend to presenting merged records to users,
as part of the move towards FRBRization. If records need merging this
generally means they weren't totally identical to start with, so you can
end up with conflicting bibliographic data to display.
Two examples I've come
Hi Graham, do I know you from RHUL?
My thoughts on merged records would be:
1. don't do it - use separate IDs and just present links between related
manifestations; thus avoiding potential confusions.
http://www.bic.org.uk/files/pdfs/identification-digibook.pdf
possible relationships - see
Just a reminder for anyone in Ottawa, Ontario tomorrow that there will
be an informal code4lib North pub meetup at the Royal Oak downtown.
The response so far has been very good with almost 20 people
confirmed. If you haven't already RSVP'd, don't worry -- drop-ins are
very welcome, too!
Date:
Just thought it may interest some :)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:19:20 -0700
From: Jonathan Gray j.g...@cantab.net
Subject: [open-humanities] On Machine Readable Reading Lists
To: open-philosophy open-philoso...@lists.okfn.org
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Hello. I have a local question that I will assume to be general: how do those
of you involved in special collections and the like - especially in the event
that those collections are born digital and perhaps not entirely recent - deal
with issues of evaluation of digital assets?
One difficult
Al,
I'm not an archivist by trade, but I had some thoughts on the subject, (and
the person who sits behind me is, so I bounced my ideas off her to make sure
I'm not talking inanities). Anyway, here goes:
I think when people look into archiving/storing digital media, they look at
it as
