[Web4lib] Libraries that support user tagging in OPAC?

[Drew, Bill]

Good thoughts but if tagging is to be useful as a discovery tool don't
tags need to be housed outside of the library at sites such as
del.icio.us?  Otherwise users have to go to your catalog to find the
place to search by tags.  That would mean changes in URLs would cause
problems.  I see tags as needing to be outside of the catalog.

Wilfred (Bill) Drew
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Mike McDermott
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 9:42 AM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Libraries that support user tagging in OPAC?
> 
> Wouldn't the 'tagging' be an internal function of the catalog, 
> similar to subjects headings except that users could add their 
> own at will?  In that case, changing the URL wouldn't break tags 
> any more than it would break every other outside URL that links 
> directly to items in the catalog (i.e., a link to a particular 
> subject search or OCLC number).  It seems like a well thought out 
> implementation of tagging would have some standard way to do 
> these searches:
> http://mylib.myschool.edu/search/tag?tag=springbreak
> so that only the hostname would change.
>