Term Change

[elfundeb2 <elfundeb@comcast.net>]

> In a message dated 02/01/2003 19:00:58 GMT Standard Time, 
> dicentra at x... writes:
> 
> 
> > <sigh>  You're right.  It's just that "rule-breaking" is a subset 
of
> > "rules", not its opposite.  It was bugging me, OK?  I'm having 
more of
> > a Hermione moment than a Percy one.

Yes, I can completely sympathize with this.  I've had my own Hermione 
moments in this process, though I've tried to subdue them.  
> > 
And Eloise added:
> 
> Does it matter *that* much if we have both terms, in the greater 
scheme of 
> things?
> I know we're trying to keep them to a minimum, but I think we're 
all adult 
> enough not to start a flood of duplicate terms on the basis of one 
precedent 
> - aren't we? Please say we are!  ;-) And they're going to come out 
next to 
> each other in a search, aren't they? Just like variant  American 
and British 
> spellings and we're not worrying about those. (Are we? I can't 
spell in 
> American without thinking about it!).

With so many of us working on this project, inconsistencies and 
duplication are bound to occur no matter how hard we try to avoid 
it.  Perhaps the best way to handle all of these issues is for each 
of us to just do our best, and then when the cataloguing is done for 
one or two people to sift through the catalogues and topic terms and 
try to streamline and harmonize them to the extent possible.  That 
would be much more efficient than for us to go back and fix our 
catalogues each time we come up with a better descriptive term.  Then 
when we get ready to start the OoP phase catalogue <vbg>, we will 
have a much better list to work with.  Thoughts?


Debbie
noting that the new grey colour matches the local weather, and that 
she would gladly have sent Dicey the rain that flooded her basement 
last night>