Re: ACTION: paulmiller to look at librarything

This actually looks cool (very clear influence of del.icio.us...).

However, it lacks the possibility to 'rank' and/or annotate a book, ie,
to use the social network to rank/review the books. I am not sure that
just the number of links would be good enough for that...

Nevertheless, I stored the bookmark on that stuff...

I.

Leo Sauermann wrote:
> 
> For references, looking at
> www.bibsonomy.org
> may help
> 
> the makers are in an EU project with us and fancy RDF.
> it works very hard related to bibtex, and does not really do the trick,
> though
> 
> best
> Leo
> 
> 
> 
> Es begab sich aber da Paul Miller zur rechten Zeit 11.12.2006 17:30
> folgendes schrieb:
> 
>> 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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