Ross,
What you've illustrated here is the difference between we think is
important and what our users (and Amazon's customers) care about.
It would seem that we should either enrich our author info with more
detail or relax our position on author authorities. But our current
situation is that we're spending a lot of money on something that our
users (as judged by Amazon's lack of investment in that area) don't
value.
--Casey
On May 30, 2007, at 11:44 PM, Ross Singer wrote:
> On 5/30/07, Michael Fitzgerald <mike_at_jazzdiscography.com> wrote:
>>> a lot of stuff...
>
> Out of curiosity, how does the average person navigate this:
> http://orlabs.oclc.org/Identities/find?fullName=%22michael
> +fitzgerald%22
>
> over this:
> http://amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/104-2774713-7821547?url=search-
> alias%3Daps&field-keywords=%22michael+fitzgerald%22
>
> ?
>
> This is no defense of Amazon, but depending on your name authority
> file for disambiguation is a big leap in assuming people know who the
> hell you are (and that includes librarians).
>
> -Ross.
Received on Thu May 31 2007 - 00:19:22 EDT