[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Feature inquiry

[Dan Scott]

Awesome, thanks for the clarification/corrections and slides, Steve!

2008/10/7 Steve Toub <stoub at yahoo.com>:
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> Dan Scott wrote:
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>> Your assertions about student behaviour conflict with the findings
>> presented at Access 2008 just last week by both Ken Varnum (who
>> presented on MTagger results at University of Michigan) and Steve Toub
>> (who presented research results on social behaviour at Queen's
>> University in conjunction with the work Bibliocommons is doing). Both
>> presentations showed the results of research that tagging in an
>> academic library context is something that appears to be valued by
>> librarians, but not particularly (or at all) by library users.
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> My take: if you build a tagging service with the absence of understanding
> motivations for tagging, use of that service will probably be low.
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> Its still early days for understanding tagging in the catalog, too early to
> know for sure if this is valued by library users. Our preliminary research
> indicated most academic users we interviewed would likely contribute at
> least one or two data elements if they saw the value in doing so.
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>> Steve's presentation showed that students didn't get "tagging" in a
>> library catalog, even though they recognized the feature in Facebook.
>> Completely different contexts.
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> Yep. Assigning a persons name to a portion of a photo in Facebook seems
> completely, uh, lobotomized, from assigning descriptive text to a web page.
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>> Apologies to the speakers for horribly simplifying the presentations
>> (hopefully they will be made available somewhere), but my take-away
>> was that implementing tagging in the Evergreen catalog interface
>> should be a low priority.
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> I've posted my presentation on SlideShare:
>  http://ugc-academic.notlong.com
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> There's a slide toward the back on strategies for ensuring high quality
> contributions.
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> There was a breakout group at Access that discussed the idea of sharing
> user-generated content across systems. I think the first step was to do an
> inventory of existing data elements with an eye toward how they might map to
> existing schema (e.g., hReview [1]),xFolk [2], DiSo [3], APML [4]); Roy
> Tennant and I added this metadata inventory/mapping task to our "to do on a
> rainy day" lists, but we'd would welcome others to help jump us start this.
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> I don't know of any InSurge repositories other than the only SOPAC instance
> in production: Darien Public Library. I'm still not clear on the actual
> mechanism for syncing InSurge repositories but seems to require some kind of
> manual setup. The discussion forum for InSurge is at:
>        http://www.thesocialopac.net/forum/22
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> --
> Steve Toub
> Product Manager, BiblioCommons
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> [1] http://microformats.org/wiki/hreview
> [2] http://microformats.org/wiki/xfolk
> [3] http://diso-project.org/wiki/Main_Page
> [4] http://www.apml.org/
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Dan Scott
Laurentian University