[Koha-devel] Tagging in Koha OPAC

[Rachel Hamilton-Williams]

That's a very cool idea - how about flinging it out to the wider Koha 
list and see if we get some librarians excited about it as well?

Cheers
Rachel


Matti Lassila wrote:
> A little feature suggestion to the future version of Koha OPAC:
> 
> While ago I read a book called The Power to Name by Hope A. Olson. In the book 
> Olson proposes an user contributed classification system in library catalogue 
> as a way to empower people. She critizises the bias found in subject 
> representation found in library catalogues and makes a skectch of a system 
> where users are able to make connections between books and add their own 
> subject headings.
> 
> And look what we have today - The Library Thing (www.librarything.com)  - an 
> online service which enables users to catalogue their own books and add 
> metadata, like tags, to the books, like in del.icio.us or in flickr. Just 
> like Olson imagined.
> 
> I think that we should add the tagging feature to Koha as soon as possible. 
> Then Koha could be the first tagging-enabled ILS and the publicity would be 
> huge - great PR to the project and to the open source movement overall.
> 
> There's an open source tagging module Freetag written in PHP 
> (http://www.freetag.org/) . It could serve as a starting point.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Matti Lassila
> 
> 
> 
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