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Lakes and Rivers

Posted on 1 September 2008 by Rick Mason

Lorcan Demsey has a post on metadata that does a great job of illustrating two types of data collections by describing them as lakes and rivers.  The idea did not originate with him; rather he encountered it via OCLC’s Eric … Continue reading →

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