[Koha] [Fwd: [Koha-devel] Tagging in Koha OPAC]

[Rachel Hamilton-Williams]

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Subject: [Koha-devel] Tagging in Koha OPAC
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 19:33:49 +0300
From: Matti Lassila <matlassi at ulapland.fi>
To: koha-devel at 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




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---Mark Twain


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