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Re: arsclist record archive
From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad
Re: Cataloguing Rules.
A user will not find anything if the user and cataloguer do not agree
on what to put in. Descriptor lists, also termed "controlled
vocabulary" or thesauri have alas to a very large extent given way
to free-text searching, because computers have become so fast.
But free-text searching is very imprecise, and if you really want to
find something that nobody else has seen, then search for
misprints.
The international sound archive community has been aware of the
cagaloguing problems for quite some time, and IASA has at least
created a framework to work from:
www.llgc.org.uk/iasa/icat/01_E.htm
which is a 1997 text of the IASA Cataloguing Rules
the home-page of IASA is now:
www.iasa-web.org/
but I did not take the time to find the link to a more recent issue of
the rules.
Kind regards,
George
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