Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
> 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.
I'm not arguing against brief displays. I just meant to say, that to me it makes not much
difference if I have DC.Creator and DC.Contributor for that purpose on the one hand or
DC.Names on the other hand.
I also indicated that DC.Description would be of much help for the searcher.
> > >
> > > 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.
Sure.
> > 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.
I'm not arguing against (simple) rules in libraries, we use them ourselves in our library.
I am arguing for even simpeler rules on the Web, where you can obviously not expect the
same consistency and control of treating names as in libraries.
--
Frank A. Roos
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