From: "Ron Daniel Jr." <[log in to unmask]>
>People, being people, will do what they want. Therefore if I get
>an incoming DC record with an unqualified date, I may treat it as
>"free text" which is essentially your notion of "host choice". ....
If you get an incoming DC record with an unqualified date you may treat
it as free text, fine, but no, that's not my notion of "host choice". You're
looking at retrieval (as in "get an incoming DC record") and I'm looking
at searching, as in: search for records where "date=1994". So let's leave
aside the retrieval part, as I think we're in agreement on that. My problem
is this: if I search on "Date=1994", I don't necessarily mean "publication
date = 1994" nor do I necessarily mean "date of issue = 1994" (whatever
that means). If I meant either of those things, I would explicitly qualify
my search as such. What I mean is this: I want the server to decide what
the most relevant, or "core" date is, which will vary from server to server
and across disciplines. And this is particularly important for distributed
searching (searching across servers and across disciplines).
Ray Denenberg
Library of Congress
202-707-5795
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