Comments on: Next-generation library catalogs, or ‘Are we there yet?’ ./../index.html Artist- and Librarian-At-Large Sat, 04 Jun 2016 18:04:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.8 By: Eric Lease Morgan ./../comment-page-1/index.html#comment-9550 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:56:39 +0000 ./../../../../index.html?p=808#comment-9550 @Péter, thank you for the elaborations. I indeed overlooked XC’s discovery layer functionality designed for Drupal, and your comments about classification and the Semantic Web are apropos. –ELM

]]> By: Király Péter ./../comment-page-1/index.html#comment-9529 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:21:12 +0000 ./../../../../index.html?p=808#comment-9529 Hi Eric,

just another great post. I have some comments:

1) you are right, that XC is (partly) a middleware, but it has a discovery interface as well embeded into Drupal

2) I beleive that classification systems provide a wider network for each books, thus making connections between distinct books. And discovery systems could provide a number of links (e.g. other works of the same author), each give additional contextual information for the users. Facets do the same, they are not just “dressing”, but contextual information as well.

3) I totally agree with the importance of text mining.

4) You did not mention the importance of semantic web. The promise is to give additional information to catalog records (or even full text), which are not inside the original data (for example: Niagra Falls’ coordinates, or the name of its mayor in 1884). As I see it is as much important as text minig, and it could improve the effectiveness of text minig.

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