Ross Singer wrote:
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Honestly, this should go into a "Two-Minute Bug Fix". Instead you're
giving your users the "double-whammy" of bad UX: "this is why the
interface I'm giving you frustrated you enough to click on a link to
figure out why it is frustrating you and how you can work around it".
Why don't you fix your widget to just show the right one (or, at
least, just one)?
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Ross,
While that is easy enough to do, this is the first I have seen of the API. Since there are duplicates in WorldCat, I don't know yet if the first record is the best choice. I know that when I click on the records in Worldcat, the first one is often not very good.
In any case, I think our goals should be helping our users, not making a perfect tool. As it is now, it is much better than getting no citations at all, or, as it worked in my catalog before: searching Worldcat, choosing a record, clicking into it, clicking on Citations, choosing the one you want. At least now, it is vastly simplified, thanks to the folks at OCLC.
Of course, there is room for improvement for everything, and that will always be the case.
Jim
James L. Weinheimer j.weinheimer_at_aur.edu
Director of Library and Information Services
The American University of Rome
Rome, Italy
Received on Thu Dec 17 2009 - 10:30:05 EST