Possibly even more useful would be the ability to click on a map and retrieve the set of political and geographic entities corresponding to the various areas containing those coordinates. But I suspect this would require a more sophisticated way of storing geographic extent in records for such entities (perhaps tracing a boundary with a stylus and somehow storing the string of connected coordinates).
Ed Jones
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Lundgren,Jimmie Harrell
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In another direction, (it's not exactly a heading or a bibliographic record), but the FAST (http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/fast/default.htm ) authority records for places link from the geographic coordinates of the place to GoogleMaps for maps and aerial photographs of those coordinates.
I thought it was pretty cool when I saw Ed O'Neill demonstrate it in January. It made me also hope the API could be used to link from the geographic coordinates fields on our bibliographic records for maps to GoogleMaps to show the users the coverage areas.
In the future I would hope to connect from place names in subject fields of bibliographic records through their authority records that have geographic coordinates to GoogleMaps or something like it and in reverse to search by geographic coordinates for works about a place.
It's exciting to read about and see options that are becoming available! This is why I stay on this list. Thanks,
Jimmie
Jimmie Lundgren
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ian Fairclough
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 8:42 AM
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Subject: [NGC4LIB] Linking headings in bib records to other resources
Dear NGC4LIB readers,
Jimmie Lundgren said in a recent post "Another useful navigation tool ... is the ability to click on headings in displayed records to retrieve other records with those headings." As is widely known, in OCLC WorldCat you can click on headings in bibliographic records to retrieve the authority record, if the heading has been "controlled." ("Control" in this context appears to be equivalent to "link.")
Has anyone developed functionality to link headings in bibliographic records, not to an authority record, but to an outside source that provides further information? For example: A personal name heading might be linked to an online biographical resource about that person.
- Ian
Ian Fairclough
George Mason University
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