M.I.B. at OCLC

[KAREN SCHNEIDER]

On the way in today I was browsing OCLC's Annual Review of
OCLC Research (also on the web, at
http://www.purl.org/oclc/review1996), and found myself reading
an article, "Classification Research at OCLC," which includes a
discussion of the topic  "M.I.B. (Men In Black)" in re ExTended
Concept Trees, "largely directed toward exploiting technology to
link subject-access systems... with the DDC." 

In addition to the amusing coincidence of the subject heading, this
article was a well-written overview of the type of tool  that could
become one of mother's little helpers (if Mom is attempting to
catalog, regardless of format).  I don't know if we will soon, or
ever, get to the point where a machine will assign subject
headings, but like  a good spell-checker I think I'd learn to trust
an intelligent agent that made some reasonable suggestions.  

Karen G. Schneider/schneider.karen at epamail.epa.gov
Contractor, GCI/Director, US EPA Region 2 Library
http://www.epa.gov/Region2/library/