ACTION: paulmiller to look at librarything

There was an action on me from last week to take a look at the suitability
of LibraryThing [1] as one channel by which to push out information about
Semantic Web books, etc.

Taking a quick look, [2] 16 people currently tag 18 books [3] as being in
some way related to the topic.

In each case, you can view descriptions of the book, find various ways to
get hold of it by buying or borrowing it, or look at related and recommended
works.

Given the number of people claiming to own any one of these titles, the
really valuable network effects are not kicking in fully. However, if 'the
community' were encouraged to embrace this as a way of increasing awareness
and understanding then it could certainly serve as one useful tool amongst
many in our toolkit.

Give it a try for yourself, maybe recording a couple of titles that *you*
own; registration is free, and you can catalogue up to 200 books for free as
well.

See something like [4] or [5] for examples of the possibilities once the
crowd gets wise...

See also [6] for one way in which a colleague of mine has been able to
further enhance the display...

[1] - http://www.librarything.com/
[2] - http://www.librarything.com/tag/semantic+web
[3] - http://www.librarything.com/tag_allbooks.php?tag=semantic%20web
[4] - http://www.librarything.com/work/16738
[5] - http://www.librarything.com/work/11754
[6] - http://www.talis.com/tdn/greasemonkey/librarythingthing

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Received on Monday, 11 December 2006 16:31:04 UTC