DaveP announced on his blog yesterday that he had created a tag cloud of subject keywords from his Horizon database. It’s really sweet.. check it out.
Kudos Dave!
Then he went one step further and released some generic code to allow others to do the same.
I’m anxious to port his work to a PHP class. I’d also like to use some kind of sliding scale to generate proportional tags for different orders of magnitude. There is a drupal module called Tagadelic that sort of does this, but the author is still searching for a more meaningful algorythim.
Anyone seen some math for long-tail?
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Casey did a version for III that uses the XML server along with a local cache of bibs (for speed). I believe he used a modified version of your class. No code yet but I believe it’s forthcoming. Is search specific and not just OPAC wide. More here:
http://libdev.plymouth.edu/post/24
By Eby on 11.17.05 5:37 pm | Permalink
Hey John! It’s Mark. I’m no longer in Ann Arbor - I’m contracting for the Smithsonian now (specifically, the National Anthropological Archives). I came across your blog through Ed Vielmetti’s del.icio.us feed.
I found this same thing today and I’d be eager to see it in action on our catalog (coincidentally, we use Horizon). Even if we didn’t make it public, it would allow us to get a good idea of where the strengths in our collections are. I’m intending to make a post about this soon on my site because I’ve also found The Art Museum Community Cataloging Project, which is basically public tagging of museum collections. There’s been talk about doing this here - not on a web-accessible scale, but in terms of non-bibliographic materials (namely artifact collections) that use a separate cataloging system (KE Software’s EMu).
By Mark A. Matienzo on 11.18.05 10:55 am | Permalink
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