Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog

Talking about the catalog

Given the growing discussion about the catalog, I was interested to look back over various entries here in the last while. Here is an incomplete list:

Some general discussions:

• Lifting out the catalog discovery experience


• Thinking about the catalog


• The Owl of Minerva

The catalog and the integrated library system:

• The integrated library system that isn't


• A palindromic service layer


• New model library system vendors

A user view:

• The network and the sun


• Who is the catalog for?


• How good is the catalog?

The catalog and the long tail: a structural perspective:

• Systemwide activities and the long tail


• Systemwide discovery and delivery


• Libraries Australia


• Libraries, logistics and the long tail

The catalog within a wider library information environment:

• The user interface that isn't


• The library website again


• Discover, locate .. vertical and horizontal integration

Making data work harder:

• Making data work - catalogs and Web 2.0


• Some FRBR presentations


• A decimal browse


• Making data work harder


• Circulating intentional data


• Making data work hard - intentionally

UI and features:

• The simple search box and the rich texture of suggestion


• A catalog or two (cats and splats)


• A service-able catalog


• Find nearby


• Search, share and subscribe


• Rank, recommend and relate