Tagging WAS: [Web4lib] Re: Future of libraries

[Brian Gray]

I see more and more catalogs are offering permanent urls to allow the
social systems that patrons already use to be utilized with opac data.

Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com


On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Tim Spalding <tim at librarything.com> wrote:
> I think PennTags was dead-on there—it's a general-purpose tagging
> device, that works in all the various proprietary systems on campus,
> as well as on the wide web. As far as I'm concerned, that was the
> PennTags achievement, and could be built upon.
>
> You could, actually, do this with Del.icio.us, if you provided
> bookmarking buttons that sidestepped the—outrageous—inability to
> bookmark OPAC pages, but you couldn't get the data back "out" into the
> catalog and elsewhere very easily, or aggregate across libraries or
> editions well either.