Email this article Doing the LibraryThing in an Academic Library Catalog
Abstract
What can an academic catalog look like in a Web 2.0
environment? This poster presents data analyzing the quality and quantity of the
metadata that a large academic library would expect to gain if utilizing a service
like that found on LibraryThing. It also looks at the advantaages and disadvantages
of controlled vocabularies and social tagging.
environment? This poster presents data analyzing the quality and quantity of the
metadata that a large academic library would expect to gain if utilizing a service
like that found on LibraryThing. It also looks at the advantaages and disadvantages
of controlled vocabularies and social tagging.