Why do people insist on talking past each other in this discussion? Jim's
example of all the different Mona Lisa entries is fine. It works because
each of these different items - a person, a book,. a libretto, etc. has
their own catalog record (metadata) - eg. because cataloging rules enforce
1:1. In the event that the cataloging convention in the library allows
several levels of description of the item (its source for example, in
microfilms), the elements associated with the "item in hand" and with the
source from which it was derived, are distinguishable by some convention.
The 1:1 convention says they are distinguishable by occuring in separate
groups of DC elements. Any convention that segregates them (as it
intellectually must) can report them out in separate clusters.
David
At 09:20 AM 4/16/99 -0400, James Weinheimer wrote:
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>Alex Satrapa wrote:
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>> It's obvious to me that if someone's looking for "the mona lisa", then
>> they only want to find the original painting, and if they actually want
>> to see it with their own two eyes, then they can afford the $2000 round
>> trip to Europe to see it. Those members of the population who can't
>> afford a trip to Europe for the sake of viewing a single painting,
>> obviously aren't going to be satisfied with facsimiles or
>> representations in other forms.
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>When someone searches "mona lisa" you may be looking for books and
>articles about the Mona Lisa, or maybe for someone who is named Mona
>Lisa. There are lots of books entitled Mona Lisa. There is also a
>libretto by Beatrice Dovsky entitled "Mona Lisa". What about Duchamp's
>version? Even Leonardo's Mona Lisa is called different things in
>different languages, like Italian Gioconda or Joconde. They may want
>various views of it (X-rays, old pictures vs. new), etc.
>When someone searches "mona lisa" it is almost impossible to figure out
>what they want to find.
>How do we deal with this? It works in a library.
>
> Jim Weinheimer
> Princeton University
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