Liveblogging Peter Morville keynote at NASIG
Information Architecture – Combination of organization, labeling, search, navigation – art + science. Can learn from related fields like HCI but not sufficient. Still emerging discipline. Done by many people who don’t know the term.
3 common lessons for many of his clients:
Multiple ways to find the same information. (e.g. Stanford [...]
This little note was squeezed into the middle of an All My Eye entry about Ingenta at the Frankfurt Book Fair:
We’ve been working closely with Google for over 2 years now, and the latest development is that we will be making our library holdings data available to Google Scholar’s Library Links program.
The full press [...]
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 not return zero results.
At This is Broken
An interesting discussion ensues concerning what search engines should [...]
Microsoft has launched Windows Live Academic. According to the site it “currently indexes content related to computer science, physics, electrical engineering, and related subject areas.”
The results interface has some interesting features, including a split panel that shows results on the left and an abstract or more info about one citation on the [...]