Re: Library Technologies and Library School (was Commercial Vendors and Open Source Software)

I think the point is that lcsh.info is essentially an m2m interface -  
in a sense, what's not to like?

On 24 Sep 2008, at 12:07, "Jim Weinheimer" <j.weinheimer_at_AUR.EDU> wrote:

> I wanted to emphasize again that while I personally don't care for the
> interface of lcsh.info, my preferences are irrelevant because this  
> is a time
> of experimentation and anyway, when everything is encoded correctly,  
> it can
> be displayed in almost any way we want, and have multiple displays  
> selected
> by the user. Someone else may find this type of display the best  
> they have
> ever seen. That's fine. Everybody can be satisfied this way.
>
> This type of display is becoming very popular however, take a look at:
> http://www.bestiario.org/harvard/b10/ (thanks to Nathan Rinne)  
> which, while
> I prefer it to the lcsh.info browsing (at least I don't have to look  
> at
> words upside down!), I still find it overwhelming, but someone else  
> may love
> it. As Ross mentioned, it is important that this information is  
> finally
> available as URIs and that is uses SKOS.
>
> Jim
>
> James Weinheimer  j.weinheimer_at_aur.edu
> Director of Library and Information Services
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephens, Owen
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:50 AM
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Library Technologies and Library School (was
> Commercial Vendors and Open Source Software)
>
> I think this is an important point - the way lcsh.info is structured
> opens up some interesting possibilities (e.g. substituting all LCSH
> terms in your catalogue with URIs; building a search engine that
> 'crawls' LCSH and presents a search interface based on this, etc.)
>
> Are there any examples of people using lcsh.info out there to look at?
>
> Owen
>
> Owen Stephens
> Assistant Director: e-Strategy and Information Resources
> Imperial College London Library
> Imperial College London
> South Kensington
> London SW7 2AZ
>
>
> Tel: 020 7594 8829
> Email: o.stephens_at_imperial.ac.uk
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
>> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ross Singer
>> Sent: 23 September 2008 14:18
>> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Library Technologies and Library
>> School (was Commercial Vendors and Open Source Software)
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Weinheimer Jim
>> <j.weinheimer_at_aur.edu> wrote:
>>> and while I personally don't care for the version at the
>> lcsh.info site (that's just my opinion), that is irrelevant.
>>
>> Well, lcsh.info's purpose isn't for making the LC Subjects
>> Headings available in a web browseable interface.  It was
>> designed as a project to model LCSH in SKOS and make it
>> available as Linked Data.  So instead of using:
>>
>> 650    _0 |a Semantic Web.
>>
>> You'd use:
>>
>> http://lcsh.info/sh2002000569#concept
>>
>> The former is useless in a web context.  Using the latter
>> (whether or not you believe SKOS is suitable for LCSH is
>> beside the point for
>> this) ensures that two disparate resources are referring to
>> the same thing.
>>
>> Bernhard Eversberg's interface is made for information
>> consumers to use, while Ed Summer's application exists for
>> information creators.
>>
>> I think this offhand critique of design misses the point of
>> their completely different purposes.
>>
>> -Ross.
>>