Library Cataloging
At the bottom of this Web page you can see an example of a tag cloud generated from several weblogs dealing with metadata and cataloging issues. Now thanks to Davey P. you can generate one from your Horizion catalog.Even if you don't publish one for your patrons, (but why not?) this could give you a unique picture of your collection. Could be useful for collection development.Seen on librarian.net.
Tags
- Metadata Provenance
There's a lot of talk about doing away with bibliographic records and replacing them with collections of linked data. In this scenario keeping track of the links is of vital importance. The recent paper How To Track Your Data: The Case for Cloud Computing...
- Tagging Study
Do Tags Work? by Cathy Marshall is an interesting study comparing tags, titles and descriptions of photos in Flickr.Have I convinced you that tags aren't all they've cracked up to be? I hope I have, but nonetheless there's a lingering fascination....
- Tagging @ Nasa
NASA is sporting a tag cloud on their home page. It is generated from words used to search the site. Look to the right a bit down. It sports a nice star field background....
- 'blogs
I'm still thinking about the best way to put Easy News Topics (ENT) to use. It seems Radio Userland can create OPML files. The outliner is not the ideal thesaurus construction tool, but it could work. k-collector is an interesting application using...
- Easy News Topics
I've been looking at ENT1.0 and considering methods of constructing a cloud, or thesaurus in other words. The standard calls for the list to be in RDF, XMT or OPML. All well and good, but are there any tools to aid in constructing a cloud in those...
Library Cataloging
Tag Cloud
At the bottom of this Web page you can see an example of a tag cloud generated from several weblogs dealing with metadata and cataloging issues. Now thanks to Davey P. you can generate one from your Horizion catalog.Even if you don't publish one for your patrons, (but why not?) this could give you a unique picture of your collection. Could be useful for collection development.Seen on librarian.net.
Tags
- Metadata Provenance
There's a lot of talk about doing away with bibliographic records and replacing them with collections of linked data. In this scenario keeping track of the links is of vital importance. The recent paper How To Track Your Data: The Case for Cloud Computing...
- Tagging Study
Do Tags Work? by Cathy Marshall is an interesting study comparing tags, titles and descriptions of photos in Flickr.Have I convinced you that tags aren't all they've cracked up to be? I hope I have, but nonetheless there's a lingering fascination....
- Tagging @ Nasa
NASA is sporting a tag cloud on their home page. It is generated from words used to search the site. Look to the right a bit down. It sports a nice star field background....
- 'blogs
I'm still thinking about the best way to put Easy News Topics (ENT) to use. It seems Radio Userland can create OPML files. The outliner is not the ideal thesaurus construction tool, but it could work. k-collector is an interesting application using...
- Easy News Topics
I've been looking at ENT1.0 and considering methods of constructing a cloud, or thesaurus in other words. The standard calls for the list to be in RDF, XMT or OPML. All well and good, but are there any tools to aid in constructing a cloud in those...