[IAEP] Library Activity

[Edward Cherlin]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 02:33:30PM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> The last few emails on the Library Activity suggest that people are
>> looking at Library as a way of organizing their various Journal content
>> just as much if not more than as a way to share said content.
>>
>> As far as organizing content goes, I like what Calibre does better than
>> the tree view you seem to be proposing.  What I would like is a tabular
>> format where you can sort ascending or descending on any column, and
>> filter on any column.  Both Calibre and iTunes have a view like this and
>> for me it works.  I would have columns for Title, Author, Subject, and
>> Type, where Author and Subject are optional.
>>
>> A tree structure is good for hiding stuff you don't want to look at.  If
>> you want to browse through everything (expand the entire tree) it wastes
>> vertical space.
>
> Well, in my mind the best solution is let user choose the right way :)
>
> So Library will have several tags views
> * cloud of tags
> * tree of tags
> * plane list of objects i.e. w/o any tags

A Mind Map view might be a useful option. Let users create links
between books, and automatically create links from books to others
that they refer to, or that refer to them. (The reverse citations
index is one of the most powerful ways that academics use to find the
latest research in their field. Just look up one of the foundational
works, and see who has mentioned it lately, and in what context.)

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