TECH: Cataloging...

["Earl J. Moniz" <earlj@MONIZ.ORG>]

Hello everyone,

this discussion of cataloging is getting real good - well, it has been real good 
from the beginning; perhaps I'm just getting good at reading it all . . . 8-)


I realize that most catalogs are based on the conventions computers and humans have 
about databases... [we've discussed the ability to re-enter the last entry from the 
previous record when building and updating records - which I never did hear from 
any vendors or makers of software, so I guess it wasn't all that good an idea in 
the first place. . .] ...


These discussions about local information and such brings to mind the notion of a 
"search and add" function not too unlike our "search and replace" functions or 
global update functions which require a keyword or such with which to select 
records to modify ...


In our discussions here, we could search on the keyword 'horror' and add the term 
'scary' ... which becomes another keywords with which to locate that item ... the 
computer would identify all records with the word horror and add the term scary for 
our group of students ...  It would also allow regional terms or slang words to be 
entered without all the work ... a global update!


Just a passing thought...


Aloha...   Earl J.




<center>Earl J. Moniz

- - - Teacher, Librarian, and Web Composer - - -

earlj@moniz.org or emoniz@nccu.edu

http://www.moniz.org

"<bold>Just an old Maui boy with a poor sense of direction...</bold>"

Aloha y'all --- Fayetteville, North Carolina

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