
   some deplorable facts
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  - Online public access catalogue (OPAC)
    - the meaning of "online" 
    - pimping out book-information (metadata), small pieces at a time
    - Efforts to make direct access hard
      - layers of complexity and inductively ascending madness (inductive erring) on the data
        1. a myriad of so called standards (PICA, PICA+, MARC, MAB, DC ...), interesting though for
           historians and archaeologists
           noise:text ratio (ever increasing from 1-11)
        2. XML versions of it
           - side effect: attracts idiot-programmers (novice, inexperienced) introducing Java,
             Frameworks, JSON, intermediate formats etc.
           - loosing important data during conversion (between usually not equivalent formats)
             e.g. link to document-pdf and place of publication
           - general translation problem
        3. storing the obfuscated data in databases, SQL or worse
        4. Clustered databases, Servers
        5. UI for the imbeciles only and web-based only.
        6. of course adding the popular Javascript madness on top (without necessity, for no reason
           except wed-design), thus excluding simple GET requests
        7. Pimping out small bits of data through the Web-UI, say 10 book-description (aka metadata)
           at a time.
        8. nota bene: the slow access, and long search response times
        9. presentation in yet another format, whatever a dumb programmer pleased
           examples from ugly 
        10. jumping on the open access train (marketing, pr, buzzword, bigdata): Inventing a thing
            called OAI
        11. on more layer of madness: API
        12. of course usually not fully and badly implemented
  
  
