Re: [IUG] Cataloging for Encore - from an encore site

["Fifarek, Aimee" <afifarek at scottsdaleaz dot gov>]

Hi all - I just wanted to chime in to say that the community tagging feature is not yet available in encore but is planned for an upcoming stage of development.  Although we don't have all the specifics, my understanding is that the community tags will appear in the tag cloud in a different color and/or font so that they can be distinguished from the subject headings.  While there is no "staff interface" I know of there would be nothing to prevent a staff member from acting like a customer and adding tags if they wanted to.  In this way it should provide the ability to add non-standard search terms without interfering with the proper subject headings in the records.
 
In my view the benefit of community tagging will be less about access than it will be the ability to create a participatory atmosphere for our customers as they use encore.  
<wildspeculation>
I could also foresee customers using tags to create a personalized interface to share.  (keep in mind that I know nothing about this feature and from this point on I'm just speculating wildly.)  I could add "afifarek" to a bunch of library items, and then use that tag to create a customized search to achieve a "listmania" type of result set which I could then share.  Or teachers could code titles with the code of their class - hist201 - that would be could resources for students to use.  Of course this assumes that tags would be indexed and available as initial searches - which I don't know for sure.
</wildspeculation>
I think that our customers and staff, creative beasties that they are, will find a plethora of uses for tags that we can't even begin to imagine.  How great is that?!?
- Aimee
 
Aimee Fifarek
Library Technology Supervisor
Scottsdale Public Library System
T:  480-312-7060
F:  480-312-7993
E:  afifarek at scottsdaleaz dot gov

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From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org on behalf of Spychala, Donna
Sent: Tue 12/18/2007 7:31 AM
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Subject: Re: [IUG] Cataloging for Encore



>From the demo I saw, this was controlled by p-type. So you could just
have staff doing the tagging. Or you could have adult patrons tagging,
etc. 

Donna Spychala
Systems Librarian
Toledo Lucas County Public Library

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Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 8:30 PM
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At 8:28 AM -0600 12/17/07, Wynn, Stephen wrote:
>In previous demos I had gotten
>the idea that tagging was a feature for the user, but this rep
>specifically said that catalogers like the feature.


While the discussion so far has focused on the interesting areas of
cataloging and authority control, I am more interested in the 'who gets
to tag' issue.  If it is only library staff, I doubt there will end up
being uch beyond LCSH at most libraries - everyone has loads of work to
do already.  Has there been clarification of whether users get to add
tags?

-Edward

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