Presentation: Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0

October 27, 2006 – 4:17 pm

MAIUG 2006 Philadelphia: Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0 (interactive QuickTime with links or static PDF)
Web 2.0 and other ?2.0? monikers have become loaded terms. But as we look back at the world wide web of 1996, there can be little doubt that today’s web is better and more useful. Indeed, that seems to be [...]

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The URLs From My Portland Talk

June 6, 2006 – 11:53 am

Following Edward Tufte’s advice, I’ve been wanting to offer a presentation without slides for a long time now; I finally got my chance in Portland. The downside is that now I don’t have anything to offer as a takeaway memory aid for my talk. My speaking notes are too abstract to offer for public consumption, [...]

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Presentation: Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0

May 21, 2006 – 10:38 am

IUG 2006 presentation: Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0 (also available as a PDF with space for notes)

This is an update of my ALA Midwinter presentation.

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WPopac: An OPAC 2.0 Testbed

February 9, 2006 – 11:54 pm

First things first, this thing probably needs a better name, but I’m not up to the task. Got ideas? Post in the comments. For the rest of this, let’s just pretend it’s an interview.
What is WPopac? It’s an OPAC — a library catalog, for my readers outside libraries — inside the framework of WordPress, the [...]

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Data Visualization and the OPAC

January 21, 2006 – 8:06 am

A chat with Ryan Eby, also an Edward Tufte fan, elicited this line about another reason we continue to struggle with the design of our catalogs:
data isn’t usable by itself
if it was then the OPAC would just be marc displays
And yesterday I was speaking with Corey Seeman about how to measure and use ?popularity? information [...]

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Presentation: Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0

January 20, 2006 – 1:30 pm

ALA Midwinter IUG SIG Presentation: Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0
update: PDF version with space for notes
Web 2.0 and other ?2.0? monikers have become loaded terms recently. But as we look back at the world wide web of 1996, there can be little doubt that today’s web is better and more useful. Indeed, that seems [...]

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