I have been exploring the idea of the end users creating the content of the
catalogue and the librarians providing the structure. See my paper to the
VALA conference <http://ningaui.anu.edu.au/papers/vala/vala98/paper.html>.
In summary -
This model redistributes some function performed by librarians to end
users. It is a model for the direct control of documents on the net which
have a stable URL so will not work for those items which are mediated
through a
database which adds a session ID to the URL. Nor with those which require
preexisting information to be stored in local cookie files. On the other
hand these could be brought into the system by the use of local files which
deal
with these problems in some other way. The same approach could be used for
those services that require authentication. This model I suspect will only
work with a relatively small and specialized clientele.
The basic concept is that the "library" supports a thesaurus indexing
structure and the end users via web forms attach documents that they find
to topics they think pertinent with rating information.
Rather than the librarians attaching terms to documents the librarians
manage the terms and the users attach document links to them.
Tony
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