I came across this article a while back on Open Source Exile about the deficiencies of the MARC format. For those of you not in the library world, MARC is essentially a digital version of the information you found in the card catalog.
The article echoes a lot of my thoughts on the subject from when I was reading about information organization and cataloging a few years back when I first started working for a library.
It's nice to see that I am not the only one who's thought of the issue lol :-)
Friday, June 26, 2009
Why card based records are not good enough
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