-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Koha-devel] Tagging in Koha OPAC Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 19:33:49 +0300 From: Matti Lassila <matlassi@ulapland.fi> To: koha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net A little feature suggestion to the future version of Koha OPAC: While ago I read a book called The Power to Name by Hope A. Olson. In the book Olson proposes an user contributed classification system in library catalogue as a way to empower people. She critizises the bias found in subject representation found in library catalogues and makes a skectch of a system where users are able to make connections between books and add their own subject headings. And look what we have today - The Library Thing (www.librarything.com) - an online service which enables users to catalogue their own books and add metadata, like tags, to the books, like in del.icio.us or in flickr. Just like Olson imagined. I think that we should add the tagging feature to Koha as soon as possible. Then Koha could be the first tagging-enabled ILS and the publicity would be huge - great PR to the project and to the open source movement overall. There's an open source tagging module Freetag written in PHP (http://www.freetag.org/) . It could serve as a starting point. Best regards, Matti Lassila --------- The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ---Mark Twain ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/koha-devel -- ----------------------------- Rachel Hamilton-Williams General Manager Katipo Communications Ltd Phone: +64-4-934 1285 Mobile: 021 389 128 E-mail: rachel@katipo.co.nz Web: www.katipo.co.nz _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha