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21 October 2008 23:43

Why Control Authority?

Preparing this week’s lecture, I came across an interesting paper by Ling Hwey Jeng questioning the necessity and cost-effectiveness of authority control. After a brief synopsis of the main aims and objectives, Jeng concludes that In cataloging, Read More...
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19 October 2008 11:00

Search Therapy

A UCLA study carried out on 24 middle-aged and older adults has found that Internet searching increases brain function. Study participants performed Web searches and book-reading tasks while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans, Read More...
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18 October 2008 15:02

Future of the Catalogue

One of the highlights of Elisad was hearing metadata expert Karen Coyle speak. Her paper Future of the Catalog was unusual for Elisad in that no reference was made to AOD, but it was no less riveting for that, and probably very healthy for subject specialists Read More...
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14 October 2008 23:26

Do It Ourselves!

I arrived on the red-eye flight from London>Turin just in time to catch the end of Bonaria Biancu’s workshop at Elisad, Do It Ourselves: Social Technologies for Information Retrieval, so I’m really pleased to see that she has posted a Read More...
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29 August 2008 12:49

Search vs Browse

When I worked full-time as a taxonomy designer for a big international database company, one of my key learning experiences from our user testing was that, no matter how good the browse options you offer, the majority of people will always prefer to search Read More...
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