You may have heard of it already. This column will tell you how it works. Think of each of these things as having individual web pages. These web pages refer to the resource in question and contain a description of that resource. To a large degree, we already do this in our paper-based records.
People get their own listings in phone books.
Buildings are recorded at the Lands Office. Documents are indexed in card catalogues. And towns are listed in the provincial register and on road maps. The purpose of these records is to provide a description of the resource in question. Descriptions of objects consist of a list of their properties.