Ethan Fenichel 🐲is it common thought for digital library managers to think subject headings are worthless? I mean, I know keyword searching is great and all, but I'm pretty sure I have read over and over again that keyword searching and subject headings are complementary.
annaneat@EthanDF If you want to do LOD eventually, won't you want controlled/external vocabulary for subjects?
@annaneat oh, well, there is that. I assume our DL manager thinks that Google will remove the need for that. Of course, the whole Empty Vessel argument supports that, too.
I should, our DL also does no entity management at all. So authors aren't controlled either - which to me, is an even bigger issue for LD
@EthanDF Yeah, I'm interested in seeing where our IMLS pilot for names wrangling in digital collections ends up - what sort of system ends up being good for that regionally, considering that many digital libraries don't have that ability baked into their systems
@annaneat now I am interested, too!