The Social CatalogJohn Blyberg

Darien Library, Darien CT

Internet Librarian 2007, 10/29/2007

Experience

Service

Goods(Books ‘n Stuff)

(People)

(Participation)

Transformation

The Transformative Library

Goods

Service

(Books ‘n Stuff)

(People)

1.0 2.0

The Three Social Catalogs

Pseudo-Social

Authority presented as collaborative (ie Encore)

Syndicated Social

Third-party data (ie LibraryThing)

Individually Social

User-direct (ie Hennepin, SOPAC)

Examples?

You need to ask yourself...

Do we want non-authoritative metadata associated with a record display?

Authority ContributionDistinction

via Interface

Think of it as:

ILS DB Social DBMerge

Not:

ILS DBSocial Crap Social Crap

You need to ask yourself...

If you include folksonomy, do you:

Want it to originate from syndicated data?

Reflect your community?

The Network Effect

(Dion Hinchcliffe, web2.wsj2.com)

You need to ask yourself...

What kind of development is involved?

You need to ask yourself...

Will it be difficult to get administrative/staff buy-in?

You need to ask yourself...

Why do you want to do it?

fin.