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Social Catalogue

Social Catalogue. What is it? What is out there?. Social Catalogue is not Social Networking. The Social Catalogue is. AKA Discovery Tool Discovery Layer Collaborative Catalogue Collective Catalogue Community Catalogue. Focused on the catalogue. Catalogue Better Searching

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Social Catalogue

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  1. Social Catalogue What is it? What is out there?

  2. Social Catalogue is not Social Networking

  3. The Social Catalogue is • AKA • Discovery Tool • Discovery Layer • Collaborative Catalogue • Collective Catalogue • Community Catalogue • Focused on the catalogue

  4. Catalogue Better Searching Relevant Results Refine search by • Facets • Fuzzy logic “Did you mean?” • Searchable user contributions

  5. Provides enriched content Covers Professional reviews Summaries Table of contents Excerpts

  6. User contributions Reviews Comments Ratings Tags

  7. Folksonomies “an Internet-based information retrieval methodology consisting of collaboratively generated, open-ended labels that categorize content such as Web pages, online photographs, and Web links.” Wikipedia (2006) quoted by Louise Spiteri in “Structure and form of folksonomy tags: The road to the public library catalogue”

  8. “Folksonomies = Desire lines that reflect the needs and interest of the community” - Laurel Tarulli “Social Catalogues and Readers’ Advisory Services: Building trust, promoting community and enhancing RA services outside the physical branch”

  9. “People call things what they call them.”

  10. User contributions Lists (both personal and shared) Messages Recommendations

  11. User contributions Follow See other’s collections = Sharing

  12. All these user contributions mean: Reader’s Advisory self-service Shared content=Connections

  13. Some examples of Social Catalogues • Many more are available • Not every feature is included • Features are always changing

  14. Add-on • Cross platform • Reviews • Ratings • Can show your library only, or all ChiliFresh libraries

  15. Add-on • Cross platform • Reviews and Ratings • Tags, Lists, Recommendations • Tag Clouds • Many cool features

  16. “Discovery and Delivery” • Federated searching of catalogue, databases, local content • Tagging, rating, reviewing • Primo e-Shelf is a personal research space

  17. Enterprise • “Search well” to discover all the resources the library offers: catalogues, digital collections, selected websites, federated resources. • Not cross-platform • Social aspects? • ChiliFresh content

  18. Open source • Cross platform • Tag clouds • “My Library” • My Tags • My Reviews

  19. “search, discover, refine” • Word clouds • “My Discoveries” • Tags from LibraryThing to jumpstart tagging

  20. Better keyword searching with facets and fuzzy logic • No clouds • Reviews, comments, ratings, tags, lists, collections • Can follow others or ignore them. • Plus messages, video links and more

  21. Michael Dell Manager, Branch Consulting Edmonton Public Library mdell@epl.ca

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