True, but sad. Sent from Eric Hellman's iPhone 1-862-596-0116 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 > > -- > ----------------------------------- > Karen Coyle / Digital Library Consultant > [log in to unmask] http://www.kcoyle.net > ph.: 510-540-7596 skype: kcoylenet > fx.: 510-848-3913 > mo.: 510-435-8234 > ------------------------------------ >