This friendly project from University of Rochester uses the blog eXtensible Caralogue to share information, experiences and creative thinking:
River Campus Libraries is studying how best to develop an open-source online system … eXtensible Catalog (XC) … to allow future library users at any level of proficiency to get more out of academic library collections. … The first phase … will produce a plan that will include:
- A survey of related projects …
- An analysis of freely-available source code …
- Outreach to other academic institutions doing similar work at libraries
- Recommendations for the metadata requirements of the new system…
- An analysis of existing user studies …
The project will share its information goods with the rest of the world (”outreach”)l. They already provide lists of literature on various topics - which are valuable because selected with current needs in mind (”bibliographies-in-context”).
Personally, I am particularly interested in their user studies comments - which look eminently sensible. Nice work!
