True, but sad.
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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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