"Weibel,Stu" wrote:
> I agree wholeheartedly with what Jim says below.
> > From: James Weinheimer [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > ... Wasn't that one of the purposes of coming up with
> > Dublin Core to make the web more like a library?
So is Dublin Core supposed to be MARC extended to the Web?
Is Dublin Core supposed to be a simplified MARC?
Either approach is doomed - because you're going to try to recreate MARC
"only simpler"... as has been mentioned earlier on this list, attempts
to create something simpler, but achieve the same results, have always
failed.
DC is supposed to be about resource discovery, right?
So is there any real problem if the way we encode information into a DC
metadata set doesn't represent the information in the "correct" form? Do
we *really* need "Uniform Title", or is that just a convenience in MARC
to assist sorting alphabetically by title (and remove duplicates)? Does
it *really* matter if one person refers to "The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn" and someone else talks about "Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)".
They're both going to have the same accession number in DC.Identifier,
aren't they? well... as long as they both use Dewey or both use LoC...
I'm confident that Dublin Core will make the web more like a library -
but it will not make the web *just like* a library. That's an impossible
goal.
Alex
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Alex Satrapa
tSA Consulting Group Pty Ltd.
Canberra, Australia
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