Survey of the most prominent rules created, including snippets of sample records with relevant bits pointed out with graphic arrows, and links created back to full records. Addition of more records Addition of material to the data, including scanned images. Inclusion of annotations based on CM and LC Rule Interpretations. It is another project entirely to assess AACR2, even if I were presumptuous enough to try. Nevertheless, a few impressions have struck me.
Many requirements are oddly arbitrary.
Assessing the project itself, I cannot help feeling that the linking facilities of the web, handy though they are, and however susceptible to ingenious use, remain a very static and cumbersome tool. I am sure that no web tutorial can adequately substitute. I have tried to build something of this back and forth motion into the site, allowing users to go back repeatedly to the data, out to the interpretations, back to the record, but even if I were able to do it perfectly, with all the actual online rules linked in, it would still fall short of the book on the knee and repeated recourse to the object itself. My web site offers something else, of course, above all interaction with its author's mind and his way of regarding and interpreting the materials. But for serious acquisition of cataloguing skills using standard tools, it would take substantially more sophisticated software, not just a more sophisticated implementation, to mimic a process that we already accomplish well enough without any software at all.