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On Dec 8, 2008, at 2:20 PM, "Karen Coyle" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Eric Hellman wrote:
>> Yep. There's no URI for LCC. You could put LCC in the subject field  
>> of a
>> dublin core profile metadata format ContextObject. But it's not  
>> clear why
>> anyone would want to do that.
>>
>>
>
> Well, it could provide some -- dare I say? -- CONTEXT. Having the  
> classification could help a resolver route the request to the  
> appropriate library catalog if a union catalog isn't available.  
> Having the classification could aid a service trying to disambiguate  
> author names. Having the classification could provide a library with  
> interesting statistics on requests, failed requests, and collection  
> development.
>
> Probably none of this is done today, but I think the LCC will become  
> more interesting to us as we begin to go beyond bibliographic  
> matching to bibliographic data mining.
>
> kc
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