Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
>"A 'standalone catalog' can certainly share it's tags with other
'standalone catalogs'. After all, none of our catalogs >are truly
'standalone' when it comes to metadata, we certainly have lots of
experience with sharing metadata between >cataloging through cooperative
cataloging."
Good point, Jonathan. I can certainly see that possible mechanisms
(LibraryThing sharing, etc.) are possible to overcome the virtual, if
not actual, island dimension of present-day standalone catalog
implementations, cooperative cataloging notwithstanding. These
mechanisms aren't in place at present so any workable solutions have an
open field. Because I think the implication (drawing from Tim's
analysis) that user tagging in a single catalog may not be sufficient
still stands. Could be wrong - any data out there from library catalog
tagging that might be compared/contrasted to Tim's data?
Allen
Received on Wed Feb 21 2007 - 13:12:26 EST