Alex Satrapa writes:
> IMHO, we should be
> approaching DC from the POV of the researcher, not the cataloguer.
>
The earliest catalogers, those who set the guidelines for what a catalog
is supposed to do, WERE researchers, not catalogers.
And even today, we try to anticipate, in cataloging, what researchers
may want to be able to discover. That's the rationale behind our
rules - or so I like to believe.
I am not saying everybody who produces metadata should attend a cataloging
crash course first. I *am* saying the rules we are using have a lot of built
in experience derived from feedback we got over the decades (from
reasearchers using catalogs; we are aware we are not the typical catalog
users ourselves) and may therefore be looked at for guidance when formulating
rules for metadata, whether one has interoperability in mind or not.
Bernhard Eversberg
Universitaetsbibliothek, Postf. 3329,
D-38023 Braunschweig, Germany
Tel. +49 531 391-5026 , -5011 , FAX -5836
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