Library Cataloging
Catalog by Design | The User Experience by Aaron Schmidt appeared in the latest Library Journal. It has created quite a heated exchange on AUTOCAT.
- Faceted Application Of Subject Terminology Book
FAST: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology: Principles and Application by Lois Mai Chan and Edward T. O'Neill is due to be published soon.While The Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) is perhaps the best known bibliographic control...
- Preliminary Report On User Research For Extensible Catalog
The eXtensible Catalog project takes a look at what "they" want.The eXtensible Catalog project at the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries is pleased to release the first report on the user research that we conducted in support of XC software...
- Problems With Microformats
This is old news, but new to me and maybe someone else. There are some basic problems with many of the microformats, including the hCalendar. The BBC has stopped using microformats.Since /programmes first went live we've been working to ensure that...
- Top Technology Issues
At ALA, Joan Frye Williams, Clifford Lynch, Walt Crawford, Roy Tennant, Thomas Dowling, Tom Wilson, and Marshall Breeding meet to discuss the top technology issues. Here is their listXML and InteroperabilityRFIDCopyrightMetasearchingOPACs and User BehaviorPolicies...
- Ontologies
Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology by Natalya F. Noy and Deborah L. McGuinness.In this guide, we have described an ontology-development methodology for declarative frame-based systems. We listed the steps in the ontology-development...
Library Cataloging
OPAC Design
Catalog by Design | The User Experience by Aaron Schmidt appeared in the latest Library Journal. It has created quite a heated exchange on AUTOCAT.
Aside from paying very little attention to visual design and not caring about the impact of horrible typography, the big problem with library catalogs is that they are not designed to help people accomplish library tasks. Instead, they?re designed to expose catalog records. Correct me if I?m wrong, but this is totally backward?prioritizing the collection, not people, results in a user-hostile interaction design and a poor user experience. Imagine the reverse: a tool that prioritizes helping people accomplish their tasks, whereby bibliographic data exists quietly in the background and is exposed only when useful.
- Faceted Application Of Subject Terminology Book
FAST: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology: Principles and Application by Lois Mai Chan and Edward T. O'Neill is due to be published soon.While The Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) is perhaps the best known bibliographic control...
- Preliminary Report On User Research For Extensible Catalog
The eXtensible Catalog project takes a look at what "they" want.The eXtensible Catalog project at the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries is pleased to release the first report on the user research that we conducted in support of XC software...
- Problems With Microformats
This is old news, but new to me and maybe someone else. There are some basic problems with many of the microformats, including the hCalendar. The BBC has stopped using microformats.Since /programmes first went live we've been working to ensure that...
- Top Technology Issues
At ALA, Joan Frye Williams, Clifford Lynch, Walt Crawford, Roy Tennant, Thomas Dowling, Tom Wilson, and Marshall Breeding meet to discuss the top technology issues. Here is their listXML and InteroperabilityRFIDCopyrightMetasearchingOPACs and User BehaviorPolicies...
- Ontologies
Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology by Natalya F. Noy and Deborah L. McGuinness.In this guide, we have described an ontology-development methodology for declarative frame-based systems. We listed the steps in the ontology-development...