At 8:13 AM 25/4/97, Rebecca S. Guenther wrote:
>We spend an awful lot of time trying to determine whether an item is a
>monograph (i.e. book) or a serial (i.e. journal). Since these distinctions
>have more to do with publication pattern (a book is a one-time thing,
>while a serial goes on forever) rather than content, are they really all
>that useful to indicate for our purposes? The distinction is not always
>clear.
I have a feeling that on the net the most useful divide for different kinds
of documents is going to be between -
live/being updated/current/now
and
dead/Static/unchanging/snapshot in time
and perhaps -
able to be directly addressed
versus
Hidden in a database which needs to be searched.
Tony
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