Wikis

There was interesting talk about 'putting Wiki functionality into the Catalogue' by allowing book reviews, synopsis, etc into the Library Cat.

But can we trust the untrained to clutter up catalogues with their own reviews? Would this risk slowing down access time? Is this response time also a factor with uploading book covers or other picture info to Cat. records?

The Library here, courtesy of Goksu, now has its own Wiki.

Trying to complete Task 17 - struck some snags - see following text of email for help to Tanya Mohr:

Hi Tanya – can’t find anyone else to ask just now so hope you can help.

I’m trying to complete the Wiki task 17 by adding my own page to the Wiki. I thought I’d add a favourites page on music I like.

First I don’t understand the instruction on the 23 things page as follows:
Add your blog to the Add Your Blog Here page. That's how we'll know that you've been there. It’s easy to do if you follow this simple syntax:

Format: URL link - Title of blog
e.g. http://plcmclearning.blogspot.com - Learning 2.0
- I don’t know what this means or how to ‘follow the syntax’, and when I click on the ‘Add your Blog here’ link I’m taken to a blank Wiki page with a login box, if I click on this or ‘Edit Page’ I go to a login page which asks for a Wiki Password/Invite Key, which I don’t have.

If I click on ‘Sandbox’ I’m taken to the Learning 2.0 Wiki page that has :
1. Add your Blog here and
2. lists of other peoples’ Favourites’

If I click ‘Add your Blog here’ I go to a page that has other peoples’ blogs, but I still don’t know how to add my own.

Cheers,
 
John Parkinson 12/2/2008

Library 2.0

Inspiring glimpses into the future of the Library.

Library 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...steps along the way to the complete learning/information/knowledge experience. (Bold formatting doesn't seem to work)

I like the description of the actual library space as "emotional/irrational/theatrical/participatory" (TBC) - look at how users access, consume and create content

Moving from VR - vitual reality, to AR - augmented reality - the services of Library projected onto/into immediate surrounds - which means what exactly - a sci-fi dream with voice-controlled holograms floating in space?

'The Long Tail' - Amazon employee description: "We sold more books today that didn't sell at all yesterday than we sold today of all the books that did sell yesterday."

ie unusual and one-off items may exceed in demand the well-worn and 'popular' - message for libraries is to cater to the unusual, extreme, hard-to-get, just as much as the common/popular.

Library's 'incarnations' - storage, data retrieval, commentary and annotation.

New perspectives: the collection will be infinite - all there online
refinement of search engines, simplification of software, and user-ed, to lead users directly to the information they want
Library services to be web-based

Here is the code to link to Technorati

Add to Technorati Favorites

del.icio.us

I've started to explore this site and have my own account: http://del.icio.us/frostypines

The big selling point is that you can carry your tagged sites around with you but I don't see how this is done unless you instal the delicious buttons on every computer you use. So how is it anything more than a Favourites that is stored on a website rather than your browser?

I have yet to explore other features like other users' Tags.

Tanya explains: You can view your delicious marked sites without having the buttons installed on your computer, you just go to the web address for your delicious site. Here is an example http://del.icio.us/bremertafe
I hope this helps.

Thanks again T!

Rollyo

The concept is interesting - and potentially timesaving. It's a bit laborious trawling through the Net to find sites to put into Rollyo, but once the work is done... I don't already have 'my own favourite sites' to insert.

http://rollyo.com/index.html then of course P: Digby U: maccan

My Rollyo is called 'Trellis Arbour' and it's a poetry archive - I searched for a poet by name and voila!

Not that again!

It's just happened again! - I left Librarything open and opened the Blogger dashboard and the LT website closed down. Whenever I open Blogger it closes down other websites I've got open!

Robyn emailed me some instructions to circumvent this - right click on the link and then click on 'open in a new window' - I'm afraid I don't know what she means - right click on what link?

LibraryThing

My Goodness this Librarything thing is fun! - I could make lists until the cows come home as it is.

My LT page: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Digby1

It says in the TQL Learning page "it also connects you to other people who have similar libraries and reading tastes." - really? How? I couldn't see anything on the LT page to indicate how to do that either.

Lindsey from librarything.com emailed me some instructions re above: go to my Profile page & click on 'Members with Digby1's books' (on the left) - but the site says 'this feature switched off 13/10'

She also said to try going to a favourite author's Author Pages and see who else has favourited that author - but how do I go to the Author Pages?



Also - how do you add tags to your book selections? - Do they have to be added before you search for the book?

At one point I followed a link saying something like ' connect this to your Blog' then it gave me some HTML code to paste into my Blog which I tried to do by pasting the code into the Source code behind this Blog - but nothing happened.

Following Lorraine's tips I've gone via 'LT Search' to 'instal widget' then copied the widget HTML and pasted it directly into this post below (not into my HTML as the site instructed)

but why isn't it here now that I've come back to edit the post?

Robyn's help email ran as follows: "from within my LT page I clicked on the Tools tab, then on "make a standard blog widget" then I copied the HTML code from the right window to a new post on my blog making sure I was in edit HTML mode not in Compose mode, and then publish post" --- well I went to my LT page clicked on Tools and found no link to blog widgets, only 'mail & news', 'Pop-up blocker etc -- I also wonder what she meant by 'right window' -- no idea what the bit about modes was all about.

I've added the LT widget but when I selected it it suddenly became 'unselected' so I selected it again only to find I'd pasted it into this blog twice. When I came back to edit the post to delete the duplicated LT widget, it's not even visible - only when I view the post!