Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> On Feb 21, 2007, at 4:26 PM, Andrew Nagy wrote:
>
>>> (That's why LibraryThing will be coming out with a "tag
>>> consortium" in
>>> the near future.)
> Actually, this sort of came up at the XC (extensiblecatalog.info)
> meeting a couple of weeks ago. A few of us thought it would be cool
> (or even "kewl") to allow different "next generation" catalogs/OPAC's
> to talk with each other to better enable recommendation services such
> as People Who Used This Also Used That. It is not a far stretch to
> allow tags from one system to be seamlessly shared with another
> system. Again, playing on the wisdom of crowds.
Please keep the list up to date on this, it sounds very interesting. We
are about 6 months into the development of our own home grown NG OPAC
and we have implemented tags, but I have a feeling it's not going to
take off. I would like to participate our OPAC in a "tag consortium"
Thanks
Andrew
Received on Fri Mar 09 2007 - 12:10:12 EST