JIBSUG seminar

Last year Kathy, Alain and I attended a JIBSUG seminar on web 2.0. I just wanted to list a ppt from talks I found interesting. It was a talk by Dave Pattern, who I believe is a computer scientist at Huddersfield.

Making the catalogue a good place to be - lipstick, cowbells and serendipity, Dave Pattern. In his talk, Dave showed many old hat e-commerce functionality applied to Opacs, the best applications being the ‘did you mean?’ spelling assist and the ‘other users who borrowed this, also borrowed…’. Moreover, he justified the applications with well reasoned aims and good statistical analysis to follow.

The other talks were the usual web 2.0 case studies. The use of Facebook at the British Library was interesting but only relevant to those who host ‘cubism exhibitions’ and the like.