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From: James Weinheimer <weinheimer.jim.l_at_GMAIL.COM>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:00:55 +0100
> On 11/11/2012 22:58, Dan Matei wrote:
> <snip>
> > My point is: "lexical co-location" is could be valuable for the user.
> > Suppose I'm looking for "Stockhausen" (knowing exactly that I mean
> > Karlheinz S.). But if the name "Markus Stockhausen" is shown to me
> > after K.S., maybe this way I find out that Karlheinz has a son,
> > composer too.
> </snip>
>
> Perhaps, but even then I question the value for a user of a catalog.
Well, I have the impression that you tend to forget that we have also users who do not have a focused interest. The „museum visitor” mentality :-)
Saturday morning I entered the Art Museum in Copenhagen (I recommend !). Of course I had an idea of what I will find there (in contrast with the the Geological Museum across the
street :-) But no idea if they have impressionists or surrealists ... in the collection ? So I was "exploring", i.e. browsing the gallery.
Likewise, let's enter into a digital library, not with a specific interest, just out of curiosity: www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collections. Let's see what they have...
First "room": Greeks and Romans (your neighbours :-): www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Perseus:collection:Greco-Roman
The alphabetic list is OK. Of course they could offer other ordering. But I wonder if they could find one which is indisputable better.
Dan
Received on Mon Nov 12 2012 - 09:28:09 EST