F.A: Roos writes:
> Do we want to make an OPAC out of the Web? If yes, we must
>
Not exactly, but libraries are including Web references into OPACs.
> >
> > the ability to create meaningful brief displays. As I said, for people used
> > to identify works be the familiar Author/Title shorthand, it is of great
> > help in library catalogs if this can be displayed.
>
> Yes, you're right. But it becomes less important if you can
> readily link to the resource ...
Not quite. The purpose of brief displays is to enable the searcher to do
a quick browse of potentially large result sets. It becomes much less quick
if you have to look at every resource in more detail.
> >
> > Additionally, in library databases, we have often used combinations of
> > several letters from first author, title, date, publisher or other elements
> > as "deduplication" search keys. We are frequently confronted with the
>
> You can still use first names and abbreviations of first names for deduplication.
> Maybe you don't need DC.Creator for that.
Maybe, but "maybe" is not good enough here, one would have to investigate
that a little more closely.
> The variety and inconsistency of
> manifestions on the Web of the name of a certain person is another problem, where you
> probably can't apply library rules either.
>
If you find better, simpler rules than library rules to make names
unambiguous and consistent, then tell us. We will most happily switch.
But the complexity of our rules only reflects the complexity of this world.
B.E.
Bernhard Eversberg
Universitaetsbibliothek, Postf. 3329,
D-38023 Braunschweig, Germany
Tel. +49 531 391-5026 , -5011 , FAX -5836
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