On 2 Sep 2010, at 14:38, Chris Rusbridge wrote:
> I agree. The idea behind Intute was great bit it lived several years longer than was really justified. The job of providing a quality-controlled catalogue to sufficient internet resources over a wide enough subject spread to stimulate a growing set of repeat visitors, is just too expensive for JISC to afford. What we as people, students and/or academics have shown is that we prefer unmediated access to as much information as possible, with a world class and continually improving relevance ranking scheme. Step forward Google et al. We like to judge the quality ourselves!
And yet, we take advantage of Twitter and Delicious for quality and relevance recommendations from our peers.
At least I do - perhaps there are Proper Scholars who consult catalogues :-)
Has anyone looked at the kind of URLs tweeted by the JISC community? Are they quality? Helpful?
What about cloudworks? Its community of 450 active users have shared 2042 links with each other over the last year. Does that count as a DIY Intute I wonder?
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Les Carr
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