Posted in Uncategorized, tagged browsing, music on February 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Here’s an interesting one: Musicovery. Give it a think: can you imagine something like this applied to a library/information browse scenario?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aleph, Encore, EPS, III, Innovative, Nashville, OPAC, portal, search, searching, SirsiDynix, tag cloud, Voyager, Westerville on February 22, 2008 | No Comments »
There seems to be quite a lot of discord on the SirsiD lists in the US Unicorn world regarding iLink, EPS (SirsiD’s portal frontend) and futures. A number of them have referred to something called Encore, from Innovative, which I’d not come across (http://www.iii.com/encore/main_index2.html).
Looks like Encore is not included in III’s standard OPEC but has [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged browser, faceted navigation, library, OPAC on February 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Rummaging around the web - as you do - I came across a company called Endeca offering new ways of searching and presenting data in a whole range of industries. This led me to look at the NCSU catalogue and I liked what I saw. Easy searching and results presented in a way that allows [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Mediawiki, subject guides, wiki on February 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Meredith Farkas relates how she and her colleagues have used media wiki to present subject guides to their users. She makes an interesting point that students use a task-based approach rather than a general subject approach. I certainly identify with this as a perpetual student myself; whether learning about web technologies or languages.
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