And random self-plug, the Umlaut software is designed to be a platform
to support those kinds of services -- regardless of what (thrid party)
web site the user users to find items of interest, to support various
services on those items.
Of course it only does certain things so far, but it sets up the
architecture/framework/platform to do that, that's it's point from my
point of view.
Jonathan
Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
>
> IMHO, the way to make ourselves more relevant is to move beyond the
> access to information and towards the facilitation of services against
> information. Finding information is relatively easy for people to
> accomplish. People are drowning in it. Figuring out ways to use it is
> more challenging. Examples include compare & contrast, graph,
> summarize, annotate, etc. More are here:
>
> http://pln.palinet.org/wiki/index.php/Future_catalogs:_food_for_thought
>
> When people acquire information from us (or others) we need to figure
> out ways to make it easier for them to use it for what ever purpose
> they desire. Learning. Teaching. Scholarship. Verification. Decision-
> making. Writing. Marketing. Estimating. Predicting. Etc.
>
>
Received on Thu Sep 24 2009 - 11:22:08 EDT