If one could mashup the multifaceted capabilities of Google Book search
with the records-based faceting and physical retrieval of WorldCat.org
Local, and the social networking capabilities (tags, groups) of
LibraryThing, you'd have a pretty powerful library-oriented information
resource.
Allen Mullen
Eugene Public Library
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>From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
>[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Stephen Cauffman
>Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 11:21 AM
>To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
>Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Prof. Burke's wish list
>
>Hello everyone,
>
>I think we are starting to see some of what's on Prof. Burke's
>wish list in Google Books (which is still in Beta).
>
>For example, here's a link to Roy Tennant's "XML in Libraries"
>http://tinyurl.com/2rrk7f
>* Notice the sections: "Reviews," "References from web pages,"
>"References from books," and "References from scholarly works."
>* The "Find this book in a library" goes to the corresponding
>bibliographic record in WorldCat.org
>
>Here's a link to Walt Crawford's "Future Libraries"
>http://tinyurl.com/ysc7g2
>* Notice the "Key terms" at the bottom of the record.
>
>Finally, here's a link to an edition of Boswell's "Journal of
>a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson"
>http://tinyurl.com/226tp2
>* Notice the "Places mentioned in this book" at the bottom.
>
>My guess is that these are the results of mashups with Google
>Scholar for the 'references' and Google Maps for the 'places
>mentioned'.
>
>
>Regards,
>Steve
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>>>> Karen Coyle <kcoyle_at_KCOYLE.NET> 5/31/2007 11:57:32 am >>>
>This is from my blog notes on the first LC meeting, the one at Google.
>After describing how he does research and why he does research
>(everything from moving into new territory to looking for an
>inexpensive book to require for his class), he gave these as
>things he needs to help him with research:
>
>- tools that recognize existing clusters of knowledge; if you
>find a book using lcsh, you probably already know it existed.
>tool that recognizes the conversation the book was in. those
>that were written after the book came out and have continued
>the conversation.
>- tools that know lines of descent; chronology of
>publications; later readers determine connection between texts
>- tools that find unknown connections (full text search; topic maps?)
>- tools that produce serendipity -- hidden connections.
>- tools that inform me of authority
>- tools that know about real world usage (those who bought x
>bought y; how many people checked this out?)
>- tools that know about the sociology of knowledge; the pedigrees of
>authors: who were they trained by, how long ago; how
>trustworthy is this institution?
>
>As he spoke, I was thinking that his ideal tool is what I
>would call a bibliography. It would give the "best books" in
>an area of study, would describe various branches of thought,
>would put a document in an intellectual context, would tell
>you what item was most cited, most used in classes, most read.
>Authors would have "reviews" -- the founder of this line of
>thinking; Harvard PhD; journalist writing for the NY Post.
>They could also have "popularity" ratings, such as the
>timelines that WorldCat Identities uses.
>
>I can also see things on his list that could be
>machine-generated, such as topic maps based on full text that
>would bring together documents in a serendipitous fashion.
>
>I think his criticism of LCSH is that it is atomistic -- it
>gives you an entry into a topic but it doesn't relate items in
>the library to each other. Call numbers do that but for some
>reason we haven't played much with giving people an
>interesting navigation of the classified catalog, something
>that I think has potential. It would undoubtedly be easier to
>do with Dewey, which is more hierarchical than LC classification.
>
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