[open-bibliography] ANN: British National Bibliography

Mon Nov 22 19:04:47 UTC 2010

Amen to that, Datasets need correction policies and instructions. If you 
make it really painless for people to let you know of issues then it's 
for-the-win-for-all.

Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Richard Light 
> <richard at light.demon.co.uk <mailto:richard at light.demon.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     But is it reliable?  I looked up the book I wrote (Presenting XML,
>     SAMS Net, 1997) and find that it claims it was written by Laura
>     Alschuler. How did that happen?
>
>
> Richard - we all expect errors in the Bibliography and it's a brave 
> venture by the BL to put it out. I expect that it will be a data entry 
> error at some stage in the past. the important thing is to develop a 
> culture where the identification of errors is welcomed. 
>
>
> -- 
> Peter Murray-Rust
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> University of Cambridge
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