[9819] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: PICS for cataloging
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Burchard)
Mon Mar 4 21:48:46 1996
From: Paul Burchard <burchard@cs.princeton.edu>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 96 21:45:31 -0500
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Terry Allen kindly pointed me to some references about cataloging
online materials. Slightly more informed provocations, then:
* In terms of the Dublin Metadata Core Element Set [1], I am
wondering if PICS might not offer a richer, more systematically
extensible format for the "Subject" element. PICS can handle
any hierarchical subject classification system.
* In terms of OCLC's recommendations for revisions to the AACR
and MARC cataloging systems [2], there may be some additional
fields suited for automatically-processable categorical ratings,
for example AACR2 9.7B1b / MARC 538, "System Requirements".
The point is that PICS will make available client- and server-side
infrastructure for distributed management of hierarchical category
ratings as a result of political forces much stronger than any =
drive
toward cataloging the Internet. Why not ride the wave and see if =
it
can help bring distributed cataloging closer to reality?
[1] OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop Report (Dublin, Ohio, March 1995),
Stuart Wiebel et al. OCLC, 1995.
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<URL:http://www.oclc.org:5047/oclc/research/conferences/metadata/dub=
lin_core_report.html>.
[2] Cataloging Internet Resources, Nancy Olson (ed.). OCLC, 1995.
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<URL:ftp://ftp.rsch.oclc.org/pub/internet_cataloging_project/Manual.=
txt>.
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Paul Burchard <burchard@cs.princeton.edu>
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