Cataloging the Internet

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     How to catalog the internet in five easy steps:
     
Apply a uniform structure to file names and their content in servers. 

Catalog and index all backbone servers who distribute content. The majors first 
the minors second.

SGML all metadata within.  

Script an HTML/SGML browser and provide it for free. 

Go home and have a beer knowing you did a good days work.
______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
Subject: RE: Cataloging the Internet
Author:  The Big Glee Bopper <thom at indiana.edu> at Internet
Date:    10/16/95 7:02 PM


On Mon, 16 Oct 1995, Paul Neff, Internet Librarian wrote:
     
> 
> > So what is the difference? Can you catalog a moving target or do you have 
> > to pattern recognize it? 
> 
> All cataloged resources are moving targets.  It's just that some move faster 
> than others.  How this cataloging is actually done seems to me to be a point 
> of expediency more than anything else.
     
So how should folks doing the cataloging deal with the fact that the real 
content of the internet is not a book or a url or an image but actually a 
_person_ ??? Has anyone started cataloging to people on the internet? The 
difference between this environment and an opac seems to be that I can 
actually find the author and ask them what they meant ... just like I am 
doing now.
     
--Thom