This is something akin to adding urls, to records for conference
proceedings, which take users to either conference Web pages or database
lists of papers contributed to the conferences. Conference Web pages are
becoming quite routine in physics, and these pages or other databases often
contain links to abstracts, or links to TeK, pdf or postscript files for
the conference papers themselves.
We have been adding 856 fields for these to our proceedings records for
some time now. See for example the record in Oclc for the latest
International Conference on High Energy Physics (28th) which was held last
year in Warsaw (ISBN 9810228740). What I find perplexing is that these and
the toc developments which are common sense to me, are deemed remarkable to
some and for some reason, a development that must be defended. Why this
is, is what I would like to know more about.
Rob Atkinson
Library, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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