On 1/4/11 8:21 PM, Frank Lovelace wrote: > On 1/4/2011 2:00 PM, Roger Loran Bailey wrote: >> Some annotations on the books on a list would be good, but allowing group >> discussions of the books amounts to turning what is essentially a catalog >> into a literary social network. I would say that sites like Goodreads is >> good enough for that and the links to it are right on the Open Library site. >> > > You're right; the social thing is probably not the right direction.
Agreed. There are other sites doing this already, and doing it well. No need to muddy the waters. > But > being able to create an "annotated bibliography" that could be exported > would be great. Do people know if BibTex can manage annotations too? > Other things: 1) Sorting lists by title, author, > copyright, etc. Sorting a list is a bit harder than a big list of search results, I think, because it can contain different types of "Seeds": Subject, Author, Work or single Edition. So, sorting a list of subjects by title doesn't really make sense, unless it's just an alpha-sort on whatever the seed is (a subject, an author's name, a work's title, or an edition's title). We could look at sorting the Activity view like you describe though, since that's just a huge list of all the "base unit" editions contained in any/all Seeds in the list. > 2)Generation of sub-lists based on some criteria. Why a sub-list? Can you give some real-world examples? Just curious why you wouldn't simply create a second list, and perhaps link them together in the description... > 3)Tagging books to do bulk actions on; for example, export just the > books that are tagged in the list. Yes - bulk actions are tantalising! > 4) Merging lists. Can you describe some actual examples here? > 5) More exporting > options: allow user to choose which MARC data to export and in what > format; maybe allow the user to enter in a string of characters that > contain variables for MARC data; the exporter would just substitute the > MARC data for the corresponding variable and keep the rest unchanged. We don't actually provide any MARC exports at the moment, though perhaps we could add links to individual, original MARCs where we have them. I'd love to try to encourage people to contribute various tools for crosswalking from our export formats to MARC. Great feedback - keep it coming! Cheers, george _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
