Prue Deacon writes:
> Are some people losing track of the fact that we are dealing with the
> Internet? With metadata we are not trying to create some gigantic library
> catalogue, whereby once searchers have identified a resource they then have
> to head for the library shelves or put in an inter-library loan request. On
> the Web, the resource itself is just a click away
Very true - *after* you've discovered it.
That means we have to distinguish between descriptive detail (much less
important than in catalogs for the reason mentioned) and access points.
It is the latter that authority control is all about. A resource not
discovered because of poor access point definition is further away than the
shelves of any library.
Bernhard Eversberg
Universitaetsbibliothek, Postf. 3329,
D-38023 Braunschweig, Germany
Tel. +49 531 391-5026 , -5011 , FAX -5836
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