Quoting Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_ND.EDU>:
> When it comes to "next-generation library catalogs" I think they
> ought to evolve into tools for use & understanding,
I agree. And this will be a good part of the talk I'm giving at LITA
Forum later this week.
I also think that users do not want MORE information, they want BETTER
information about the resources they encounter. When you retrieve
mountains of stuff, there better be a some pretty good information
about that stuff that will allow you to select what you want. And I
don't mean whether or not the country of publication is included in
brackets in the publication statement. I mean real evaluative
information: this is considered a basic book in x field of study; this
isn't already on your reading list; and lots of other things I can't
think of at the moment.
kc
> and to demonstrate this idea we here at Notre Dame have begun to
> incorporate text mining links into our holdings. From a blog posting
> describing the digitization of some our Catholic pamphlets:
>
> In order to practice with workflow, we selected about 30 of these
> pamphlets and enhanced their bibliographic records to denote their
> digital nature. These enhancements included URLs pointing to PDF
> versions of the pamphlets as well as URLs pointing to the text mining
> interfaces. When the enhancements were done we added them to the
> catalog. Once there they “flowed” to the “discovery system” (Primo). You
> can see these records from the following URL — http://bit.ly/qcnGNB At
> the same time we extracted the plain text from the PDFs and made them
> accessible via a text mining interface allowing the reader to see what
> words/phrases are most commonly used in individual pamphlets. The text
> mining interface also includes a concordance —
> http://concordance.library.nd.edu/app/ These later services are
> implemented as a means of demonstrating how library catalogs can evolve
> from inventory lists to tools for use & understanding.
>
> http://bit.ly/oxIyPO
>
> IMHO, find & get are not the problems to be solved in today's
> environment. Everybody can find & get with ease. In fact, we are
> still "drinking from the proverbial fire hose". The problem to solve
> now-a-days is ways to make content more meaningful.
>
> --
> Eric Lease Morgan
> University of Notre Dame
>
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