[Web4lib] Reader review capability now available in OpenWorldCat

[Teets,Mike]

Quick note about registration: User registration on all OCLC services is
shared.  If you personally register for WebJunction, OCLC Resource
sharing, OpenURL registry, or the Online Service Center, your account is
available on all services.  Email address is the unique key.  Good
comment on the message though.

Also, keep the comments coming on desired next steps!

Mike Teets, OCLC

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of K.G. Schneider
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 2:01 PM
To: web4lib
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Reader review capability now available in
OpenWorldCat

> OCLC today released the ability for readers to write their own
> reviews for books in OpenWorldCat. See Lorcan's blog at <http://
> orweblog.oclc.org/archives/000825.html>. Readers can also upload
> tables of contents or add notes as well. These are all stored in a
> wiki system (WikiD) outside of the catalog itself.
> Roy

Usability observation re registration: I didn't think the page was too
long,
but I had no idea I existed in the system. It kept insisting "The E-mail
Address you entered is unavailable. Please enter a different E-mail
Address." It should tell me that the address is already registered. Once
it
dawned on me that mebbe somehow I already existed, it was easy to get a
password reminder (actually a new password methinks). 

Second observation, re writing the review: "Composing or editing text
within
this form is not recognized as browser activity." A system would log me
out
while I'm exercising My Craft? After 15 minutes? Why? 

Third: if the review is going to be held (which is understandable,
Amazon
does that too; nobody wants to read spam or troll vomit), tell the
review
writer right there on the screen. I submitted the review... I clicked on
reviews... it wasn't there...now it is... but most days Lorcan Dempsey
can't
sit there watching the reviews come in. ;-)

Fourth/Fifth: would love the ability to see when other people comment on
things I comment on, and have access to a list of things I've reviewed. 

Overall, very neato concept! 

Karen G. Schneider
kgs at bluehighways.com

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