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On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Anna Headley <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > And what you hear over here is a plea to not give up on catalogers. Some > are beyond ready to move from text to data. Hiding the data view -- do you > mean making it look like marc? -- sounds pretty awful. Catalogers who are > on board are trapped by the way sharing currently works, i.e. record > sharing. If the leaders of the cataloging community are failing, what can > catalogers do? This is an honest question, not a throwing-up-of-hands. > Though maybe completely off-topic for this list. Hear, hear. I don't think we'll see a real solution unless we consider both the tech-folks' and the catalogers' concerns. I'm also sympathetic to knowledge domains wanting to have control over the meaning of their data elements (to have a useful and well defined set). How we move forward when we have so much "legacy" data (and supporting systems), as Anna said, is a difficult problem. Thanks for the plug Roy. The checks in the mail. ;-) Kevin -- Kevin S. Clarke Coordinator of Web Services Belk Library & Information Commons Appalachian State University 218 College Street Boone, NC 28608 [log in to unmask] (828) 262-8472 "There are two kinds of people in the world: those who believe there are two kinds of people and those who know better."