Cataloging the Internet

[The Big Glee Bopper]

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