On 08/20/2013 08:02 AM, Asaf Bartov wrote:
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Bob Kosovsky <bobkosovsky@nypl.org mailto:bobkosovsky@nypl.org> wrote:
It's interesting to me that databases like JSTOR don't use subject headings except with regard to the discipline of the journal where the article first appeared.Isn't that most likely because JSTOR don't have ready access to, or experience with engaging, a massive volunteer base who would undertake the work of classifying articles by subject headings?
Wikisource does have access to volunteers, but the individual articles in Popular Science Monthly and other journals or magazines aren't being systematically cataloged and indexed (or categorized) as they could. This is because our supply of volunteers is not infinite, even if the project is open to anybody.
Similarly, Wikipedia is quite large, but only in very few languages. In most languages it is quite small, because of the limited number of volunteers.