Comments on: Frankenstein, or the modern FRBR http://blogs.liblime.com/developers/2008/05/11/frankenstein/ Notes on software development, open source, and library technology Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:07:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Miklos http://blogs.liblime.com/developers/2008/05/11/frankenstein/#comment-2752 Miklos Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:57:46 +0000 http://blogs.liblime.com/developers/?p=39#comment-2752 Regarding your suggestion of having publishers provide metadata in machine-readable form, here is what I wrote in 1999: "Finally, not to forget cataloguers, whose meticulous task is essential to the well-being of a library: why not wish for a not-too-far future, in which all documents (books, periodicals, records, videos, cdroms…) will include a standard self-descriptive computer-readable record in a MARC or XML format, and incorporated in the document by its publisher?" (Michael Fingerhut, "The IRCAM Multimedia Library: a Digital Music Library", in IEEE Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries (IEEE ADL'99), Baltimore, MD (USA), May 19-21, 1999, ISBN 0-7695-0219-9/99. Available online here: http://mediatheque.ircam.fr/articles/textes/Fingerhut99a/). Never too late... Regarding your suggestion of having publishers provide metadata in machine-readable form, here is what I wrote in 1999:

“Finally, not to forget cataloguers, whose meticulous task is essential to the well-being of a library: why not wish for a not-too-far future, in which all documents (books, periodicals, records, videos, cdroms…) will include a standard self-descriptive computer-readable record in a MARC or XML format, and incorporated in the document by its publisher?”

(Michael Fingerhut, “The IRCAM Multimedia Library: a Digital Music Library”, in IEEE Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries (IEEE ADL’99), Baltimore, MD (USA), May 19-21, 1999, ISBN 0-7695-0219-9/99. Available online here: http://mediatheque.ircam.fr/articles/textes/Fingerhut99a/).

Never too late…

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