Comments on: Visualisation http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2009/07/visualisation/ Ideas linking Libraries, Computing, E-learning, and anything else that springs to mind. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:08:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dave Pattern http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2009/07/visualisation/comment-page-1/#comment-304 Dave Pattern Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:50:23 +0000 http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/?p=502#comment-304 It's probably worth noting that Bowker are now creating metadata for book covers (e.g. keywords that describe the elements of the book cover). So, you'd be able to find book covers that had someone holding an apple in their hand. Sarah -- could you elaborate on your "almost always wrong" statement? Wrong in what way? I can't see it being a worse barrier than some of the hurdles we normally place in the way -- e.g. inability to find "Oranges are not the only fruit" on most OPACs thanks to our insistence that Boolean is good thing! ;-) It’s probably worth noting that Bowker are now creating metadata for book covers (e.g. keywords that describe the elements of the book cover). So, you’d be able to find book covers that had someone holding an apple in their hand.

Sarah — could you elaborate on your “almost always wrong” statement? Wrong in what way? I can’t see it being a worse barrier than some of the hurdles we normally place in the way — e.g. inability to find “Oranges are not the only fruit” on most OPACs thanks to our insistence that Boolean is good thing! ;-)

]]> By: Sarah Bartlett http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2009/07/visualisation/comment-page-1/#comment-299 Sarah Bartlett Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:41:28 +0000 http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/?p=502#comment-299 It may be a cliche that library users remember the colour of a book jacket, but in my experience as a library practitioner they're almost always wrong for some reason. So you may be creating a red herring that actually presents a barrier between the user and that item by putting in some kind of retrieval facility based on colour. It may be a cliche that library users remember the colour of a book jacket, but in my experience as a library practitioner they’re almost always wrong for some reason. So you may be creating a red herring that actually presents a barrier between the user and that item by putting in some kind of retrieval facility based on colour.

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