{"id":232,"date":"2008-06-11T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2008-06-11T21:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T09:06:00","slug":"exploiting-library-catalogue-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/exploiting-library-catalogue-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploiting library catalogue data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At some point I&#8217;ll catch up from when I was down with a nasty cold and do a proper non-English blog roundup installment.  In the meantime this leaped out at me:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marlenescorner.blogspirit.com\/archive\/2008\/06\/11\/le-marche-du-mardi-n-14.html\">Marlen&#8217;s Corner<\/a> (French) quotes from <a href=\"http:\/\/campus.hesge.ch\/id_bilingue\/projekte_partner\/acueil\/resultats.asp\">a survey about catalogue use<\/a> (also French) saying approximately:  &#8220;[&#8230;] we must say that the quality of library data is their advantage compared to other data sources.  The problem currently doesn&#8217;t come from these latter, but rather from the lack of exploitation of the library data&#8217;s potential by search engines, and from the lack of visibility that the interfaces give them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Every now and then I talk about how I want a catalogue that <a href=\"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/bit-of-colour.html\">lets users search by colour<\/a>.  There&#8217;s just that tiny detail that we&#8217;d first need to catalogue the colour of a million-odd existing volumes and redesign the search interface&#8230;  But seriously, we catalogue books with all sorts of obscure information &#8212; by size, for example.  Why do we do that?  More to the point, since we <i>do<\/i> do that, why don&#8217;t we exploit the fact that the information&#8217;s there:  why can&#8217;t users search by size?  Why can&#8217;t we limit our searches by &#8220;has illustrations&#8221;, &#8220;has colour illustrations&#8221;, &#8220;includes maps&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>(<i>Is<\/i> there any catalogue that can do any of this?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point I&#8217;ll catch up from when I was down with a nasty cold and do a proper non-English blog roundup installment. In the meantime this leaped out at me: Marlen&#8217;s Corner (French) quotes from a survey about catalogue use (also French) saying approximately: &#8220;[&#8230;] we must say that the quality of library data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[69,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}