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Re: arsclist record archive
On 12/12/02, stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> But it's great for books and you can find out which libraries contain
>> _The Metaphysics of Liberty_ (Dordrecht, Holland: Kluwer Academic,
>> 1989), by me, for example.
Is it worth reading ? ;-)
> Exactly. And the problem is that we expect phonorecords...which are,
> after all, man-made and "published" objects, just like books...to fit
> neatly into the same database. Kinda like entering my kitchen table...
> which, after all, has a wheel at each corner...into a database of
> trucks...
Amazon have similar problems. Their database was obviously set up with
popular records in mind. They just about grasped that classical
recordings have a composer _and_ a performer, but often these are the
wrong way round.
Regards
--
Don Cox
doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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