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La présentation de Roy Tennant, The Future of Catalogs, lors de la dernière conférence en date de la Texas Library Association.

Via Federated Search

DigitalKoans signale que la DLF (Digital Library Federation) et 10 noms des Sigb* vont faire en sorte de soutenir des standards d'interopérabilité pour leurs interfaces, histoire de permettre l'intégration de ce qu'on appelle les "emerging discovery services" (next generation catalog, library/web 2.0).

* Talis, Ex Libris, LibLime, BiblioCommons, SirsiDynix, Polaris Library Systems, VTLS, California Digital Library, OCLC, AquaBrowser

On March 6, representatives of the Digital Library Federation (DLF), academic libraries, and major library application vendors met in Berkeley, California to discuss a draft recommendation from the DLF for standard interfaces for integrating the data and services of the Integrated Library System (ILS) with new applications supporting user discovery. Such standard interfaces will allow libraries to deploy new discovery services to meet ever-growing user expectations in the Web 2.0 era, take full advantage of advanced ILS data management and services, and encourage a strong, innovative community and marketplace in next-generation library management and discovery applications.

Màj (13/04/08): lire également On Innovation in the ILS Marketplace (source: DLTJ, 12/04/08)

Marchitelli, Andrea and Piazzini, Tessa (2008), OPAC, SOPAC E Social networking: cataloghi di biblioteca 2.0?, in Biblioteche Oggi 26(2), pp. 82-92. (article en italien | déposé sur E-LIS)

[IT] In questo articolo vengono messe a confronto realizzazioni tradizionali di sistemi OPAC, OPAC arricchiti, OPAC sociali e applicativi di social cataloguing. Lo scopo è quello di evidenziare linee di tendenza, a livello di elaborazione teorica, e fornire un abbozzo di tassonomia di tali strumenti, secondo il livello di interazione consentito agli utenti e la capacità di gestire contenuti generati dall'utente, nell'ottica dell'applicazione delle tendenze del web 2.0 alle biblioteche, la library 2.0. Chiude l'articolo una breve rassegna dei software, proprietari o liberi, che sembrano più promettenti in questo senso.
[EN] In this article are compared traditional OPAC systems, enriched OPAC, social OPAC and social cataloguing systems.the aim is to underline new theoretical trends and to offer a taxonomic outline of such tools, according to the interaction level granted to users and to the chance to manage user's generated contents in the point of view of the application of web 2.0 tendecies to libraries, in the library 2.0. At the end, a brief review of softwares, both open source and not, that seem promising for this future application.

Les responsables du projet XC (eXtensible Catalog) ont publié récemment leur rapport sur la phase 1 dudit projet.

Via XC

John Wenzler, LibraryThing and the Library Catalog: Adding Collective Intelligence to the OPAC (Workshop on Next Generation Libraries, San Francisco State CARL NITIG; 7 september 2007):

"The Goal: Enhancing the Catalog with Web 2.0 Technologies
Web 2.0 theorists argue that Internet technologies now allow us to harness the “Wisdom of the Crowd” in unprecedented ways. Successful online experiments such as Wikipedia demonstrate that the collective knowledge of millions of users can produce reference works that are more comprehensive than traditional reference sources produced by a small group of experts. Similarly, “folksonomies,” which use the judgment of the crowd to organize documents, have worked extremely well on popular Web 2.0 sites such as Flickr , del.icio.ous, and LibraryThing. By collecting and analyzing the private descriptions – the tags – that users add to their own photos, URLs, and books, these sites generate valuable metadata about public documents and resources."

Via Wadingln

A voir [pour les collègues Opac/Portail (mais pas seulement)]:

Bibliobsession 2.0 signale le lancement récent d'un Opac réalisé avec Koha. Il s'agit du site des média-bibliothèques de Ouest Provence.

"convivialité, communauté, partage, simplicité, accès à distance"

Je laisse mes collègues "opac" (mais pas seulement) découvrir le site de l'Ecole Supérieure de Commerce (ESC) de Lille (à un jet de clic de notre Wallonie), ainsi que les développements qu'il va encore connaître dans les prochaines semaines via Klog et Bibliobsession 2.0.

Les responsables du projet eXtensible Catalog (XC) ont publié un rapport qui analyse les comportements des utilisateurs en matière de recherche et d'utilisation des ressources en ligne:

"In our planning year, we reviewed studies of how people do research in the library or using resources and technology provided by the library. We did this because we want to understand how people make use of a variety of current tools and resources and how well these tools and resources support their work. Our aim is that XC will provide better tools than the ones people are currently using. Beyond this, we want to build XC specifically to meet identified work practices and preferences, so that it will be both intuitive and innovative in ways that meet current and emerging needs." [ lire la suite ]

Barazia, Caterina, Rossi, Paola (2007), Italian OPACs: a tool to retrieve documents in Italian libraries. ISGL Bulletin: The annual newsletter of the Italian Studies Library Group(6):pp. 24-29. (déposé sur E-LIS)

"An introduction of Italian OPACs, a section of AIB-WEB (the website of Italian Library Association) which contains the Directory of Italian OPACs. The directory provides an inventory of all online catalogues present in the Italian territory and neighbouring Italian-speaking areas. All the OPACs are catalogued in a database and many of them are connected by the Azalai software, in order to allow their simultaneous search through MAI, the MetaOPAC Azalai italiano."

Medeiros, Norm (2007), The Catalog’s Last Stand. OCLC Systems & Services 23(3):pp. 235-237. (déposé sur E-LIS)

"This article describes the uncertain future of the online catalog, and the tension that exists between creating a cataloging code that meets user needs while adhering to principles deemed important by the cataloging community. Underscoring this tension are the provocative questions posited by the Taiga Steering Committee, which call into question the future of libraries."