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I am forwarding this message because, for some reason, it came to me as the administrator of the list. Hmmm... > Hi, > > Longtime reader, firsttime submitter. > > I am a cataloger who has been working with digitizing, PHP, MySQL and > trying to move the catalog out of the ILS. I think that this forum > is the > correct one for these discussions. To me CODE4LIB means that we are > working to develop real solutions for real problems that the > vendors will > not be able to do because of financial and contractual restraints. > > I also believe that there are going to be multiple solutions that > work -- > even multiple solutions at single institutions. I don't think that > there > is a real weakness with MARC, but there is with the ways that it > has been > used to date. > > I really appreciate the "crappyblackboxie....thingy". Our real > problem is > not the rich information that has been created over the last 100 > years, > but the fact that I can only get to it if I use a special tool. > > Seeing as Dublin Core et al. have been based to a great extent on > MARC and > AACR, it is a shame (and as a cataloger, may I say embarassment) > that MARC > itself is so lacking in interoperability. > > I believe that that is the key: interoperability. I believe that we > need > to work towards means of integrating the "catalog" with the rest of > the > information world. OpenWorldCat is a great step in this direction, > but now > we need to get our catalogers and other librarians and users adding > "metadata" (aka "cataloging," "tagging", "taxonomies", "reviews", > etc.) to > the rest of the materials. > > We have the basic tools available to start doing this, especially > the open > source tools for converting MARC to MARCXML and Lucene, Z39.50, > etc. I am > really excited by the work that the CODE4LIB people have already been > doing. > > I'll stop for now. Sorry I've been so longwinded, > Ross > > > > >> Hi, >> >> On 6/6/06, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> On the other hand we are a bunch o' hackers, and there is more to >>> this thing (whatever it is called) than code. We need the >>> perspective >>> of catalogers, reference types, administrators, vendors, etc. Thus, >>> the idea for creating a new list. >> >> Ok, that's fair enough, but will they come? My experiences with these >> kind of things is that what we would like to see happen won't. Maybe >> I'm overly pessimistic, but I think there is far too much politics in >> the library world these days for real discussions to take place >> outside of the hacking realm. Hmm. Maybe I should get soome coffee >> and >> come back and answer things in a more positive light. :) >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Alex >> -- >> "Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you >> know." >> - Frank >> Herbert >> __ http://shelter.nu/ >> __________________________________________________ >> > > > -- > Ross Shanley-Roberts > Authority Control Librarian/ > Special Projects Cataloger > Miami University > Oxford, OH 45056 > 513 529-3376 -- Eric