http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:27:46 +0000 Jonathan Rochkind [Visitor] c374@http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/ Hmm, why do we put subject headings in catalog records, if not to "generate tools and services that would help consume that content." If you consider "finding what will meet your needs to be" "consuming content" (as your un-named colleague seems to), than much of the cataloging record is there to meet this need, and librarians have been concerned with it at least since Cutter and Dewey. <br /> <br /> Of course, that's only the first of three terms in your "discovered, manipulated, and recombined" phrase. Perhaps it's the other two which are new? I'm not sure. The very idea of "manipulating" or "recombining" the content we hold may be new--regardless of who provides the tools for doing it.
Of course, that's only the first of three terms in your "discovered, manipulated, and recombined" phrase. Perhaps it's the other two which are new? I'm not sure. The very idea of "manipulating" or "recombining" the content we hold may be new--regardless of who provides the tools for doing it. ]]> http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2007/04/24/pb_keynote_at_dlf_forum#c374