- From: MacKenzie Smith <kenzie@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 08:22:18 -0400
- To: "Butler, Mark" <Mark_Butler@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, "'www-rdf-dspace@w3.org'" <www-rdf-dspace@w3.org>
It's expensive to produce metadata period (by hand, at any rate). But if you only use one standard (e.g. MARC) then you get some efficiencies and economies of scale around training, tools, workflows, etc. When each item could potentially be described with any schema or vocabulary then you need some pretty smart people to apply it! This is why application of community-specific metadata often devolves to the community to supply -- library staff don't normally have the same level of domain-specific expertise (in every domain) as the practitioners. MacKenzie/ At 06:21 PM 4/28/2003 +0100, Butler, Mark wrote: Action for: MacKenzie Smith >MacKenzie, please can you answer this question? > >[ 058. ] >Summary: Section 2.1.1 why is it expensive for libaries to provide community >specific ways to describe content? >Raised By: David Hunyh >Status: open >Description: > >2. It is expensive for libraries to provide community-specific >ways to describe or annotate content [why expensive?]. MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries Building 14S-208 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 (617)253-8184 kenzie@mit.edu
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