Voice of America does the LibraryThing
VOA makes LibraryThing its Website of the Week, interviews fool. I love how the reporter can't quite explain it, and sort of throws his hands up: "This is actually a site that's easier to understand if you take a look."
posted by Tim at 8:57 AM
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"common-sense labels called tags ... instead of complex library catalog categories."
No - in _addition_ to ;-)
Agreed. I think many non-librarians can reflexively react against "complex library categories." In fact, the problem isn't the complexity of the categories--people don't see that complexity and they don't mind it--but the complexity of the presentation.
IMHO, having the hierarchy be linkable and using > instead of -- goes a long way toward solving THAT problem. It might also help to alias more subjects Philosophy > History is perfectly equivalent to "history of philosophy."
Maybe LT should allow "subject-tag combinations," either automatic or manual?
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