I agree wholeheartedly with what Jim says below.
stu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Weinheimer [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 9:04 AM
> To: Frank A. Roos
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Ranking and sorting
>
> > Do we want to make an OPAC out of the Web?
>
> The question of what and how to index should not be a question for the
> format. Different search engines will search and display in different
> ways (as they do now). The format should be flexible enough to allow for
> all these various methods.
>
> Yes, I would like the *option* of having library-type displays and
> searching. A lot of this could ultimately be put in the hands of the
> individual user. Wasn't that one of the purposes of coming up with
> Dublin Core to make the web more like a library?
> Jim Weinheimer
> Princeton University
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