God bless Bryony – she puts up with a lot! Last night she had to put up with me adding a tagging system to our test HIP server (wwwlibrarycat.hud.ac.uk).
To be honest, the amount of interest in the subject keyword cloud took me by surprise, and it was fascinating to read all of the other [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2005’
Taggytastic – part 3
Folksonomies
I've just stumbled across an excellent article by Ellyssa Kroski about folksonomies (user, rather than expert, created taxonomies):
The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging
Now that Amazon is letting its users tag items, how long before we see this functionality in the OPAC? I'm getting very tempted to add a tagging facility to our test [...]
HIP Tips!
Adding a message to your log in page
At Huddersfield, we've added some text to our HIP login page:
This is a really easy hack and just involves editing a single XSL page (security.xsl).
As always, make a safe backup of the file before you do any editing!
Firstly, open up security.xsl in your favourite text editor. If [...]