Future of the catalog
- web 2.0 use and ability to mashup
- various metadata formats integrated
- interoperability / unified discovery interface
- ownerships and control databases
- ownership and control of transactional data
- catalog management
- user customization
- software support
- role of catalog within google book search
- using profiling to figure out what user base of catalog is to determine behavior - intelligent agents to gather data on individual users
- problem of the scope - what is a "heavy duty user"?
- preventing vendors from design choices
- value of subject cataloging vs. key word searching of large amounts of text
- users of libraries are not just clearly looking for facts
- does this mean we need to change the experience of using the catalog?
- adding features that users expect eg google maps of holdings for large library systems
- even just building maps within the catalog for holdings dat
- how does this related to improving signage etc
- mashing up RFID tags with visual keying of location