ALA Midwinter 2007: MARS Hot Topics Discussion on OPACS

MARS hot topics discussion group, mars products and services committee: Not your Dad’s Interface: next generation opacs and search engines
Endeca: Someone from NCSU spoke

Endeca is not a replacement for their catalog
Barnes and Noble, Walmart - both use Endeca as search front-ends…
Does great relevance ranking, and allows you to tweak those

AquaBrowser: Someone from King County Public [...]

Inviting Participation, Part 4: Specific Tools - Blogs

This is part 4 of my Inviting Participation in Web 2.0 series of articles.
So far, I’ve introduced both active and passive forms of inviting participation using web 2.0 tools. My next goal is to cover specific tools, like blogs, wikis, and myspace. How does one invite participation using all these way-cool web 2.0 tools?
Inviting Participation [...]

Inviting Participation, Part 3: Active Invitations

This is part 3 of my Inviting Participation in Web 2.0 series of articles.
So far in this series, I’ve introduced the concept of inviting participation, and I’ve covered passive invitations to participation. And some of you have actually been participating in this discussion, too - that’s wonderful! Y’all have great ideas. So keep sharing them!
Today’s [...]

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Inviting Participation, Part 2: Passive Invitations

This is part 2 of my Inviting Participation in Web 2.0 series of articles.
I thought I’d tackle the more difficult type of invitation first - passive invitations. Going back to the example in my first post on inviting participation, my Are You Blogging This song. Within my blog post about the song, I didn’t directly [...]

Inviting Participation in Web 2.0

The last few weeks, an idea has been slowly forming in my head - one that I’ll call inviting participation. David, what do you mean - inviting participation? Well… let me tell you.
A big chunk of web 2.0 has to do with different forms of participation. You can see this in the large, popular, user-created-content [...]

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