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November 21, 2024
‘In a World full of infinite choice, context – not content – is King’ TAGS: Archives | cataloguing | context | metadata | standards Yesterday we discussed contextual cataloguing in the group. By this I mean creating meaningful catalogues with interconnections, or a web of relationships so that a collection or item is put …Continue reading →
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