It appears that Cohen is hopeful that we can move out of the slavish acceptance stage by remembering and reapplying our professional principles to the Internet age. Cox presents a well-organized deconstruction of Baker's central premises, and manages to be polite in doing so. This and other points are made throughout the article, making this it a useful companion piece to Baker's ruminations. This article will be of particular interest to collection development librarians and administrators responsible for analyzing the terms of agreement for CDs, DVDs and online access. For example, a writer can contribute material to one of these sites on ancient Rome.
Users then rate the work according to a grading system.
When someone else is looking for work on ancient Rome those writings which have received higher grades from users will automatically come to the top of the search list. Some sites such as Slashdot do have a modicum of editorial oversight but for the most part a user is relying on unknown reviewers to filter and rate content. Eventually, one may trust the opinions of particular reviewers but for the most part this still leaves us with the problem of evaluating the evaluators. Designed as a common meeting ground between more robust descriptive systems such as MARC, there has been pressure from some participants in the process to complicate the DC to allow more complex and full- featured DC systems. In this readable and well-argued article, Lagoze explains the rationale behind keeping DC simple.