A very intense day at Santa Clara University. Began with a presentation about the Horizon Project and their annual report that profiles important new technologies. Raymond Yee explained mashups and how they are created. Then came several workshops that showed screen shots of the websites of various web 2.0 mashup creation devices or websites that use mashups.
One of the most interesting features was an unplanned discussion of Encore, a web catalog add-on that provides a tag cloud to search on. The cloud for each item consists of a) every keyword in the title and lcsh 2) User-defined tags. The users must provide their university id and/or library card number in order to contribute tags, which essentially eliminates frivilous tags. You can drill down by selecting an item, selecting its tags, and following the trail. This provides a sort of boolean search capability. Also met Agnesa Cappalini, whom I have known on sl for some time.
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