On Apr 7, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:

> Absolutely. The catalogers are still creating a textual document, not
> data. At best you can mark up the text, as we do with the MARC  
> record...


Listen...  What you hear from over here is the sound of a very heavy  
sigh coming from a computer type who really wants to help improve the  
way library data is used in a networked environment, but they can't  
convince their own to modify the way they encode information.

-- 
Earache Least Moron