A next generation catalog is a kittenlog.
A catalog with user-generated uncontrolled headings is a tagalog.
If deployed too early in the development cycle, it will be termed a
catamite.
End users will probably just call it it a search engine.
Simon // resting on laurels from 'cybrarian'
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On Aug 15, 2007, at 4:12 AM, William Denton <wtd_at_POBOX.COM> wrote:
> Will the next generation catalogue be called a catalogue? What do you
> call your conception of what should replace your OPAC?
>
> I've mentioned before on this list how I've been inspired by Wendy
> Newman,
> who first told me about the One Big Library, and Dan Chudnov,
> himself a
> believer in the One Big Library, who decided his mission in life was
> to
> help people build their own libraries.
>
> I phrase it like this: I want to help people build, manage, and share
> their personal branch of the One Big Library.
>
> My short form for this is "catalogue." But where I work, when I talk
> about a catalogue, people take it as the OPAC. (And we don't have a
> very
> good one.) The OPAC is separate from the online journals and
> electronic
> resources, so there's some confusion. In my head, it's all the same
> big
> crazy goddamn thing, but the word means something different to other
> folks.
>
> I've been thinking that "resource discovery tool" might work, but
> that's
> kind of dull. "NGC" sounds like something non-governmental. Do you
> have
> a word for it? Maybe "platform" could be worked in somewhere?
>
> Bill
> --
> William Denton, Toronto : www.miskatonic.org www.frbr.org www.openfrbr.org
> "There are few things librarians enjoy more than frequent,
> extensive and inconclusive discussions." -- Maurice B. Line
Received on Wed Aug 15 2007 - 07:36:37 EDT