Kathryn,
You're more than free to redistribute anything I post... As a state employee, everything I write in my official capacity is in the public domain anyway!
Danielle Cunniff Plumer, Coordinator
Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
512.463.5852 (phone) / 512.936.2306 (fax)
dplumer_at_tsl.state.tx.us
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu]On Behalf Of Kathryn La Barre
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 9:31 AM
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] NGC4LIB Digest - 30 Jan 2007 to 31 Jan 2007
(#2007-21)
I too am very interested, and extremely concerned by these patent
developments for faceted interfaces. I attended a recent (November
2006) Endeca presentation for the U of Illinois library consortium in
which the sales representatives implied that the first Endeca patent
(May 2006) was just the beginning - that there were a number of others
in the works, and that they "weren't looking to put anyone out of
business" rather they indicated interest in collecting licensing fees
- to compensate them for their research and development.
A parallel thread just began on the FacetedClassification Discussion
(FCD) list -- but the response has not been as robust as we see here.
I'd love to move some of the examples just given - especially
regarding the effect/impact on the open source work - to this other
list with permission - or you can take this as an encouragement to
jump in over there -- http://poorbuthappy.com/fcd/ (occasional
traffic - but the archives are worth consulting).
As for Uta Priss' work I concur. Her CV:
http://www.upriss.org.uk/top/research.html contains links to many
relevant papers.
Other relevant work exists including that by Marti Hearst in her
Flamenco project -- recent pubilcations/tutorial are located here:
http://flamenco.berkeley.edu/pubs.html
Best,
Kathryn La Barre
Assistant Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois
Received on Thu Feb 01 2007 - 10:02:35 EST