To me it is all about Shannon.
Our university has a campus subscription to Nature. When a student
is on campus, he can link straight through, e.g., to Martin Kemp's
article,
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v434/n7031/full/434308a.html
but if the student is off campus, he has to go through the campus
library's proxy server to hit that article, viz.
http://www.nature.com.ucfproxy.fcla.edu/nature/journal/v434/
n7031/full/434308a.html
When a student bookmarks that article from campus, the bookmark is
distinguishable from the bookmark of a student off campus.
Distinguishing information persists in the bookmarks, and I would
vote for allowing bookmarks to retain the distinguishing information
intact, unless the library owner decides otherwise.
I say all that from thinking about the information content of the
Connotea system: keep information level high, don't lose information
carelessly. The more ways information links together, the higher the
entropy -- in the Shannon sense.
Also, I am not thinking about ease of use, the "university user" idea
that Martin mentions. That is something to think about, but to me it
is separate from the information content of the Connotea system.
And I do instruct my students about the OpenURL resolver in their
advanced settings.
- Thomas Brueckner
On Aug 1, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Martin Flack wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> Thomas Brueckner wrote:
>> This is all an issue for me because my students in Connotea are a
>> mixture of students on campus and students off campus. Their
>> links to Nature for instance, are pure nature.com URIs if on
>> campus, but off campus student links carry the university's proxy
>> information embedded in the URI. I would prefer that Connotea
>> NOT destroy that distinguishing information. And perhaps others
>> might care to analyze those access methods for Connotea as a whole.
>
> You're speaking of a duality of links that you currently maintain
> outside of Connotea, right? Or are you accomplishing it in the
> library with tags or something?
>
> The article-to-many-bookmarks thoughts have made me realize that
> there may be cases, such as yours here, where a user might
> *automatically* benefit from more than one URL being available to
> them. We could call it the "university user issue", where they
> would like one type or URI on campus and another related type off
> campus. Although this sounds like something we might do with plugin
> modules instead of the buggotea solution, because it depends on the
> given domain being linked.
>
> Martin
>
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