CORE
CORE: Concept Of REference
The word “reference” is often used as various technical term in the informatics and related subjects. WWW that we see now has an important element “Hyper-Reference”. “Reference” is used as a daily word, too. We have seen the word as one of the top 14 categories at Yahoo! Directory for a long time. This simple but profound word is sometimes difficult to understand. For example, The contents of “Reference Services” in Libraries are hard to know in Japan when someone hears the name for the first time. I heard that young people here in UIUC don’t understand the service contents either and the name of the service had been changed…
Anyway, I would like to get together and clarify the concept of reference on this blog and the site uniref.org.