10 Nov
2004
10 Nov
'04
5:32 p.m.
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
Everybody is complaining about the missing subject information.
Complaining won't help. Stepping up and volunteering to enter the data would help.
I don't believe we are ready. There is right now no agreement about what form this data would take, or what standard to try to comply with. If various volunteers all get to enter their own idea of what catagories and subject headings appeal to them, we will end up with a mish-mash of conflicting and overlapping data. I am no expert here, but I have read enough to know that doing subject cataloging _well_ is more involved most people realise. Andrew