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Thursday, December 07, 2006

Week 6 : Library/Web 2.0

Well where to start…

There is much debate on blogs and the Internet in general on the nature of Library 2.0. What I personally have found interesting is the debate about tags and subject headings (check out catalogablog). Could we add tags to our OPACs for instance. Perhaps with a filtering agent (human or technical) that could arrange hierarchy and synonym control. The problem with allowing users to make their own tags is the subjective nature of it all. Descriptive words for one person have a different meaning for another. I don’t think complete freedom in searching a library catalogue is a possibility. We would need to have in place some means of guiding the searcher to the ‘correct’ search terms used in the catalogue. Othewise we could end up with a catalogue that only a minority(the technology savvy?) could use.

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