[Web4lib] Libraries that support user tagging in OPAC?

[Ross Singer]

Er, I'm not entirely sure the utility of just 'tagging' the catalog (which I
think is what you mean by 'internal function of the catalog').  If that was
all that users could 'bookmark' in your electronic offerings, I think they'd
be pretty unsatisfied.

To address Bill's issue, a better way to implement such a system would be
either the way UPenn does it (which, I believe, bases it on the 001) or,
even better, would be a way to capture the data as an openurl, which would
then allow you to add in more services in the tagging application based on
the metadata that is captured.

While the opac is useful (well, YMMV), it shouldn't be considered as either
a destination or an end unto itself.

-Ross.

On 3/10/06, Mike McDermott <mmcderm2 at bowdoin.edu> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Just spouting off the top of my head for the sake of discussion
> though... I'm interested to see what others think.
>
> Mike
>
> Drew, Bill wrote:
> > There is one problem with tagging in OPACs.  What happens when you
> > change the URL of the catalog?  This is going to happen to us this
> > summer when we move to a new server and upgrade to version 16 of ALEPH.
> > This is the same problem with are going to have with any persistent URLs
> > people maybe using for searches.
>
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