The screenshot shows what happens when you search Aquabrowser for books by the author Angela Brazil. it finds the books (among other things) but the tags generated (in the little cloud on the left) are a motley collection and generally not much use.
Friday 18 June 2010
Tagging
I'm in two minds about this tagging idea. Asking a librarian to add independently generated keywords rather than controlled vocabulary goes against ingrained work habits. I'm not joking.
The screenshot shows what happens when you search Aquabrowser for books by the author Angela Brazil. it finds the books (among other things) but the tags generated (in the little cloud on the left) are a motley collection and generally not much use.
The screenshot shows what happens when you search Aquabrowser for books by the author Angela Brazil. it finds the books (among other things) but the tags generated (in the little cloud on the left) are a motley collection and generally not much use.
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That's a very interesting AquaBrower screenshot. What library is it from? As far as I understand it, it's possible to set up AquaBrowser locally to draw on specific record fields for creating the tag cloud - so you can generate data from 650s and 651s, for instance.
ReplyDeleteHi lbrgoddess! Good point, I'd forgotten the customising aspects. This one was from Edinburh University library. Didn't set out to look for problems but had a reader enquiry on A. Brazil
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