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Taggytastic!

15th November 2005

Taggytastic!

posted in Horizon/HIP |

Inspired by Jenny Levine's mock up of an OPAC with keyword tags, I've gone a step further and used our Horizon database (the "subject" table in particular) to generate a real page based on subject keywords with more than 10 bibs:

http://www.daveyp.com/blog/stuff/subjects.html

I did a bit of tweaking so that sub-subjects (is that a real word?) are collapsed into the parent subject - if you hover your mouse pointer over one of the links, then you should get a better idea of what I mean. Once I'd got the totals for each parent subject, I excluded anything with less than 100 bibs.

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  1. 1 On November 15th, 2005, The Shifted Librarian said:

    Taggytastic Library Catalog!

    David Pattern just made my day year, and just under the wire, too. Taggytastic "Inspired by Jenny Levine's mock up of an OPAC with keyword tags, I've gone a step further and used our Horizon database (the 'subject' table in…

    posted on November 15th, 2005 at 10:58 pm

  2. 2 On November 16th, 2005, Davey P said:

    Many thanks Jenny! I've uploaded the script, so other Horizon sites can have a play around:

    http://www.daveyp.com/blog/index.php/archives/47/

    …and I'll try and come up with a version that will work for other systems.

    posted on November 16th, 2005 at 1:00 pm

  3. 3 On November 17th, 2005, Michael Porter said:

    Love it! It is worth noting that the sizes of the tags Sex, Politics and Religion (which as we all know are the three things not to speak of in polite company) were much larger in Jenny's mock-up than in reality. ;)

    Seriously though, this is a huge lunge forward. Very impressive!

    posted on November 17th, 2005 at 7:17 am

  4. 4 On November 17th, 2005, Scott said:

    This is rather cool. Love to see this work in Sydney Plus.

    posted on November 17th, 2005 at 3:29 pm

  5. 5 On November 17th, 2005, Code Name: Jonah said:

    Tag-Cloud Library Catalog

    Jenny Levine dreams up a tag-clouded library catalog and someone else puts up a rough prototype. On NorthStarNet, meanwhile, we're sticking with our 15 subject headings….

    posted on November 17th, 2005 at 11:20 pm

  6. 6 On November 18th, 2005, Kate Sherrill said:

    Wednesday, I emailed one of our library techs the tag cloud post and link to the prototype and script, asking him if it could be altered to work with Voyager (our OPAC). This morning he shows me a working version. I love it! He's going to tweak it some more, then I hope to include it on our library's homepage.

    Davey, would you want to upload the Voyager version of the script too?

    posted on November 18th, 2005 at 5:03 pm

  7. 7 On November 20th, 2005, Davey P said:

    Kate - that's great to hear!

    The script is really only a prototype, inspired by Jenny Levine et al, so it's fantastic that you've managed to get it running with a completely different library system :-)

    If you're happy to share it, then I'd be more than happy to host it with the existing Horizon script - you can email me at:

    email [at] daveyp.com

    I'm busy trying to come up with a hierarchical browsing version of the Horizon script.

    posted on November 20th, 2005 at 10:18 pm

  8. 8 On November 21st, 2005, Pattern Recognition said:

    When is a tag not a tag?

    Just catching up with my library news after my vacation last week, and discovered a couple of interesting blog posts that I wanted to comment on. I originally saw this from Jessamyn, but it originated with Jenny and was then picked up by Davey P&#8217…

    posted on November 21st, 2005 at 4:05 pm

  9. 9 On November 24th, 2005, Hermes said:

    links for 2005-11-24

    "Self-plagiarism is style" » Taggytastic! (tags: Libraries tags) DSpace System Documentation: Functional Overview (tags: dspace Digital_Libraries digital-object-repositories) TipMonkies » Blog Archive » The Ultimate Guide to Google Services (tags…

    posted on November 24th, 2005 at 2:19 am

  10. 10 On December 20th, 2005, The Shifted Librarian said:

    My Holiday Present from Davey P.

    Taggytastic – Part 3 “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…

    posted on December 20th, 2005 at 3:19 pm

  11. 11 On April 5th, 2007, Shelly said:

    WOW!

    Pleeeeease tell me what I need to do in order for you to show me how to do that with our HIP catalog?

    Could someone who is not a programmer, like me, do it without too much trouble?

    Thank you.
    Shelly M.

    posted on April 5th, 2007 at 9:47 pm

  12. 12 On April 6th, 2007, Dave Pattern said:

    Hi Shelly

    You should be able to get the Perl script up and running, although it might require a bit of help from one of your IT staff (especially if you have to set up the ODBC connection from scratch).

    posted on April 6th, 2007 at 8:39 am

  13. 13 On December 12th, 2007, The OPLIN 4cast » Blog Archive » OPLIN 4cast #30 said:

    [...] prevalence of keywords or tags (see Flickr, Technorati, and del.icio.us for well-known examples). A few libraries have experimented with tag clouds as a way for patrons to navigate their catalogs, [...]

    posted on December 12th, 2007 at 4:51 pm

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