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Data Designed for Discovery

Roy Tennant

The Canonical Entity (of the past) — the card catalog

MARC was not created for online catalogs; it was created for card catalogs. It’s a fundamental flaw. Readable reformatting of MARC isn’t much better

The classic bib record

  •  a collection of statements
  • taken from the piece itself
  • sometimes enhanced w inferred parentheticals
  • or additional statements not on the piece (eg subject headings)
  • where punctuation, which may or may not be present is used (inconsistently) for structure
  • We’re dealing with uncontrolled text strings that are only loosely connected to anything else

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Author Heather BraumPosted on October 26, 2015October 31, 2015Categories Conferences Notes, Internet LibrarianTags discovery, internetlibrarian, linked data, metadata

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