This short piece in the Boston Globe Ideas section started out as an article about the Dewey Decimal system in the digital age, with Google Print as a hook. But the hook ate the fish. [Tags: EverythingIsMiscellaneous google GooglePrint metadata taxonomy]

Glenn Fleishman has a fascinating post about this very issue today. What a coincidence!

The question “What is a book?” just gets harder and harder the more you look at it. I’d interviewed a bunch of folks on this topic for the Globe piece, but it all got cut as my allotted length went from 1200 words to 750 due to reshuffling of ads or some such thing. (A good place to start: FRBR – Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records.)

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