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Re:Dublin Core's dirty little secret (2010) by karaterobot on Saturday October 02, 2021 @11:39AM (#28729463)
Some people catalog information every day, so it matters to them for practical reasons. Same with people who rely on those resources being accurately cataloged.
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Re:Dublin Core's dirty little secret (2010) by smitty1e on Saturday October 02, 2021 @12:39PM (#28729994)
I'm ok with obsessing about the data.

Presentation, an order of magnitude less.

Substance >>> style.

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Re:Dublin Core's dirty little secret (2010) by brazzy on Saturday October 02, 2021 @01:05PM (#28730177)
You're missing the point. Citation formats are not a matter of style here. It's about making research results easier to find, which directly affects the quality of new research.
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Re:Dublin Core's dirty little secret (2010) by karaterobot on Saturday October 02, 2021 @12:58PM (#28730137)
Cataloging format is to style as database modeling is to... well, style. It's got nothing to do with aesthetics, it's about describing the data in a way that makes it useful later.
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