Trends: Technology Might Matter

• But it doesn’t always; remember the TWX!

• Well-timed incremental improvements layered over existing systems tend to take hold best (e.g. Ariel and Prospero are very incremental relative to the context of DOCLINE and SERHOLD)

• Have you ever looked at MARC?

• Bibliographic metadata sans people and rules simply doesn’t work well (or, how do *you* write RDF?)

  • (napster filters all)