Trying something a bit different, I've put a mock on Flickr to illustrate some of the ideas here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/open-library/5327600061/ Feel free to comment on Flickr, or back here! g On 1/5/11 11:39 AM, George Oates wrote: > On 1/4/11 8:21 PM, Frank Lovelace wrote: >> On 1/4/2011 2:00 PM, Roger Loran Bailey wrote: >>> Some annotations on the books on a list would be good, but allowing group >>> discussions of the books amounts to turning what is essentially a catalog >>> into a literary social network. I would say that sites like Goodreads is >>> good enough for that and the links to it are right on the Open Library site. >>> >> >> You're right; the social thing is probably not the right direction. > > Agreed. There are other sites doing this already, and doing it well. No need > to > muddy the waters. > >> But >> being able to create an "annotated bibliography" that could be exported >> would be great. > > Do people know if BibTex can manage annotations too? > > > Other things: 1) Sorting lists by title, author, >> copyright, etc. > > Sorting a list is a bit harder than a big list of search results, I think, > because it can contain different types of "Seeds": Subject, Author, Work or > single Edition. > > So, sorting a list of subjects by title doesn't really make sense, unless it's > just an alpha-sort on whatever the seed is (a subject, an author's name, a > work's title, or an edition's title). > > We could look at sorting the Activity view like you describe though, since > that's just a huge list of all the "base unit" editions contained in any/all > Seeds in the list. > >> 2)Generation of sub-lists based on some criteria. > > Why a sub-list? Can you give some real-world examples? Just curious why you > wouldn't simply create a second list, and perhaps link them together in the > description... > >> 3)Tagging books to do bulk actions on; for example, export just the >> books that are tagged in the list. > > Yes - bulk actions are tantalising! > >> 4) Merging lists. > > Can you describe some actual examples here? > >> 5) More exporting >> options: allow user to choose which MARC data to export and in what >> format; maybe allow the user to enter in a string of characters that >> contain variables for MARC data; the exporter would just substitute the >> MARC data for the corresponding variable and keep the rest unchanged. > > We don't actually provide any MARC exports at the moment, though perhaps we > could add links to individual, original MARCs where we have them. I'd love to > try to encourage people to contribute various tools for crosswalking from our > export formats to MARC. > > Great feedback - keep it coming! > > Cheers, > george > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
