Drift through the music! « QM library and emerging web technologies

Drift through the music!

February 23, 2008 by Jeremy

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 browsing, music | 4 Comments

on February 25, 2008 at 9:31 am1 damian311

Are you suggesting we deliver information content to the students based on what mood they’re in? Some suggestions:

No work today,
1 hr to deadline,
all nighter (exam next day)
on February 26, 2008 at 1:45 pm2 jeremya

Coo, what a good idea! But think about, say, replacing the tabs by ‘Libraries’, ‘Online’, ‘Other data’ (ie repository, other non-library indexed data); the moods by ‘research’, ‘taught’; and the genres by LC main classes.

Not necessarily best examples and you might not get sweet music, but something else might pop up!
on February 27, 2008 at 11:44 am3 Emma

There is something so appealing about the interface that it begs you to browse around and explore new stuff you would never think of listening to normally. If we could translate a smidge of that feeling into the catalogue we might find library users were far more willing to explore collections than we currently think.
on February 27, 2008 at 2:42 pm4 Jeremy

Yes, and they might even enjoy the exploration experience too. Clicking on a tag might return a list of ranked records; it would be nice to be able, say, to slide tags and records into a box to be posted to Facebook, Delicious, whatever, as well.

In my dreams! Wonder what our academics would think of this?