Since posting about #Aquabreezer, I have noticed the British Library has implemented such a front end, so now the catalogue exhibits behaviours unusual to some test agents.
How is that for people trying to use it? I wont mention where I ran the test, for that raises a matter I have raised here before, the integrity of professional practice.
But it is clear that the thing changes the way it is possible to do things, and that might have both advantages, we can do knew things, and that we need to go back to cards to do other things.
There was an article in ITNow on faceted search breadcrumbs, and I found google grep on that string produced some things I didn't know about, one of which I pasted to my Facebook, and will build into a group on Facebook called Taxonony, except to my joy I had a message on lis-link about work on Just use Dewey... I thought I was the last remaining occupant of the planet exhorting JuD so am overwhelmed to find such a bunch. That changes the whole picture.
I've investigated ulrls further, and it takes federated search a lot further than any other site I have found so far, if I am using the right term.
This is also probably linked data, about which Talis focused a meeting recently.
Now if we join linked data, federated search and faceted search breadcrumbs we have a sort of small stack where not all information professionals might be at the same step on the ladder at the same time, in fact it has to be larger than a ladder for all to be there, and that in turn makes matters for #infocy (which is what I started my thread into information literacy as) as well as metadata, and that begats #infodefrag. (These hashtags, in case you need to retrieve messages, act as indexical items on files, including email messages, and tweets.) There is also the JISC #UKdiscovery which brings up richest collections and collaborative or collective work, which takes us to the National Forum on Information Planning, which is a jiscmail list, lis-nfip.
The next step is working out how to group these things for the dayjob and the eveningtime.
This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email
Security System.
|