Comments on: Friday Technolust http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=62 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:31:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kathryn Greenhill http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=62&cpage=1#comment-233 Kathryn Greenhill Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:26:00 +0000 http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=62#comment-233 Count me in - then we can use the leftover cash to sponser someone to create an application which allows you to navigate through a library catalogue with something that looks the same as the blobby dots he drew. <br/><br/>I could imagine a tag cloud that you could "swim" through and bring different fields to prominence. Sort of like <a HREF="http://aqua.queenslibrary.org/" REL="nofollow">Aquabrowser</a> but with colour/shape coding for each field and the ability to pull yourself through the fields...maybe pulling a couple up to the surface to compare them. <br/><br/>The work would then, of course, be retrieved as a book cover. Count me in – then we can use the leftover cash to sponser someone to create an application which allows you to navigate through a library catalogue with something that looks the same as the blobby dots he drew.

I could imagine a tag cloud that you could “swim” through and bring different fields to prominence. Sort of like Aquabrowser but with colour/shape coding for each field and the ability to pull yourself through the fields…maybe pulling a couple up to the surface to compare them.

The work would then, of course, be retrieved as a book cover.

]]> By: Paul R. Pival http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=62&cpage=1#comment-232 Paul R. Pival Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:10:00 +0000 http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=62#comment-232 Wow, that <b>is</b> pretty impressive. Could see quite a few uses for interacting with digitized content in libraries/archives/museums... Thanks for the pointer! Wow, that is pretty impressive. Could see quite a few uses for interacting with digitized content in libraries/archives/museums… Thanks for the pointer!

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