William Moen from UNT has done a bit of statistical analysis of the
actual use of MARC tags. The project website doesn't seem to be
responding this morning, but there are details at
http://www.unt.edu/wmoen/publications/MARCPaper_Final2003.pdf
Cheers,
--Sebastian
Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> For a good time I created a MARC record tag cloud:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ypqcyn
>
> Tag clouds are graphic illustrations depicting the common elements in
> a larger set of words. Using tag clouds you can see what words occur
> frequently or not. Delicious uses tag clouds extensively. So does
> LibraryThing. A person an also use tag clouds to navigate sets of
> documents. Click on word. Get search results.
>
> A service called Many Eyes by IBM allows anybody to create tag clouds
> -- as well as other data visualizations. I did this with a set of
> 14,000 MARC records representing new books, and the result is
> illustrated at the URL above. Based on what I saw, most of the
> content the MARC records is administrative and does not lend itself
> discovery. (If we spend more of our effort creating administrative
> data than discover data, then what does that say about our values?)
>
> I wonder what would happen if I removed the administrative data?
> First off all, the data set size would probably diminish by 50%, and
> second, the cloud would probably make more sense.
>
> --
> Eric Lease Morgan
> University Libraries of Notre Dame
>
> (574) 631-8604
>
>
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Received on Tue Mar 13 2007 - 08:21:52 EDT