(top-posting unravelled)
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 1:12 PM, David Goodman<dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Pavlo
Shevelo<pavlo.shevelo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 12:23 AM, David
Goodman<dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The training is typically an apprenticeship under
the senior
cataloging librarians.
To my regret training/apprenticeship does not fit to "everyone
can...", "be bold!" set of wikimedia slogans/motto.
As to me I would stand behind (vote for) training and apprenticeship.
Exactly. That is why Wikipedia is an inappropriate place for this
project. It lacks sufficient stability. I think Wikipedia should go on
being what it is, an almost completely open place,and projects which
need disciplined long term expertise should be organized separately.
Wikipedia is a wonderful place to do many things, but not all.
The good news is that the broader Wikimedia community is not all like
English Wikipedia, where "be bold" is often interpreted as demanding
that the worst of anarchy be present in every situation. ;-)
Commons and Wikisource are able to build a sensible metadata layer
around their collection using plain wiki text. We also have a project
designed to add structure this metadata.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicat
Either way, wikisource and commons will likely figure out a way to
have Dublin Core and MODS records for their collection in the next few
years.
--
John Vandenberg