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Layers of the OPAC in a Nutshell
The ontology layer is what should be between the LCSH authority records and natural language interface in the optimal OPAC design. An ontology defines classes, sets, attributes, and relations of the...
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Some thoughts about FRBR—It is a Beautiful Thing
As Christine Schwartz observed in the Cataloging Futures blog, I don’t believe that MARC is the problem with the OPAC or issues with findability. Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records—or...
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Catch the Vision of the 21st Century OPAC
I envision the entry page to a library OPAC to look much the same as Google: an empty text box just waiting for the patron’s request. The OPAC I envision has a link underneath providing “advanced”...
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Relevancy for Library Search
Marshall Breeding discusses the issue of relevancy ranking in the 21st Century OPAC. It seems that most online catalogs and discovery systems attempt to present their search results according to...
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Data as a Web
This is a very interesting article about data. Approaching data as a graph will help make solutions findable. The biggest conceptual problem learners seem to have is with what we call graph thinking....
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Making our OPACs More Gracious Hosts
An interesting project to make it easier to integrate the records from digital resources into a library public OPAC. I now consider digital resources–OER, images, videos, audio files, slideshows,...
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Do the Discovery and Delivery Solutions Solve OPAC Usability Problems?
Those of you who have been following my thoughts for a long time know that one of my pet peeves is the current state of the library OPAC. While we have seen some improvements since I started blogging...
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