Alex Satrapa wrote:
> What other reasons are there for Corporate Authors?
What a can of worms! Could we please take it for granted that, just as
there are reasons for technical problems in computer systems, or legal
systems, there can also be technical problems for cataloging? And that
these technical problems do not exist solely for the continued existence
of the catalogers?
There are reasons for all of these things, and many of the reasons are
mind-numbingly complicated. It merely reflects the incredible complexity
of the print world. Try cataloging a book by a Russian futurist! And are
we to consider "Russian futurists" as a corporate body?
Why do we insist that web documents will be any simpler? I feel it would
be more productive to take what we have learned in hundreds of years of
cataloging experience and all of us could simply accept its utility.
(That's what DC is founded on)
>From this well-established standpoint we could reevaluate and see where
our guidelines could be pared down for the ephemeral items on the web.
Jim Weinheimer
Princeton University
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