Is anyone talking about "recommendation engines"? I know that the idea of
restricted vetting of materials is unpopular, but for our undergraduates,
websites or materials recommended by faculty and scholars would be of
interest. If recommendation systems kept track of user categories of
credentials, would they be more meaningful?
Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian
Colgate University Libraries
charper_at_colgate.edu
315-228-7363
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_nd.edu> wrote:
> At ALA I shared a podium with John Blyberg and Tim Spalding, and we all
> gave presentations about "next generation library catalogs" as sponsored by
> the ALA Next Generation Library Special Catalog Interest Group. Here a blurb
> and a link to mine:
>
> The Next Next-Generation Library Catalog
>
> With the advent of the Internet and wide-scale availability of
> full-text content, people are overwhelmed with the amount of
> accessible data and information. Library catalogs can only go so
> far when it comes to delimiting what is relevant and what is not.
> Even when the most exact searches return 100′s of hits what is a
> person to do? Services against texts — digital humanities
> computing techniques — represent a possible answer. Whether the
> content is represented by novels, works of literature, or
> scholarly journal articles the methods of the digital humanities
> can provide ways to compare & contrast, analyze, and make more
> useful any type of content. This essay elaborates on these ideas
> and describes how they can be integrated into the "next,
> next-generation library catalog"...
>
> The next "next generation library catalog" is not about find,
> instead it is about use. Integrating digital humanities computing
> techniques into library collections and services is just one
> example of how this can be done.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/3xcwood
>
> --
> Eric Lease Morgan
> University of Notre Dame
>
Received on Wed Jun 30 2010 - 10:48:27 EDT