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Category Archives: catalogs
How Do Tag Clouds Work?
Library Journal interviewed Tim Spalding, creator of LibraryThing, for the January 15th edition. The interview includes Tim’s explanation of how tag clouds work. Tim talks about the relative size and bold-ness of the tags and how the software figures out … Continue reading
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Passing Time with the AADL Catalog
I’m in the Atlanta airport for a good while, waiting for my flight to San Antonio for Open Repositories, so I shelled out for wifi access. And now that I have, I’m going to find things to do online until … Continue reading
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NYT Site Search
At least library catalogs aren’t the only search tools with problems: When I search for “A Food Website Spiced with Attitude”, the NYT’s search engine should take a wild, off-the-wall guess about what article I might be looking for, and … Continue reading
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