[TopicMapsInLIS] Inaugurating the list

[Liliana Melgar E.]

Dear Suellen and Edward, and dear all,

thank you very vey much for the information you sent. Your presentation is
excellent to show real examples.
I hope to contribute to the wiki and to the list a little bit more next
month.

With respect to Kevin Trainor's comments on the survey, about the subject
gateways, I would like to add a modest observation related to the
applications of TM in digital libraries vs. hybrid libraries, because I have
observed that in stand alone digital libraries the catalog and the portal
tend to work together (even the catalog is not as important as in a
traditional library. See for example: http://www.memorynet.org/home.php)
while in hybrid libraries there is a "mixture" of library portal or web
site, library catalog, digital library collections (generally searched by a
different tool than the library catalog), subject guides or gateways (see
for example: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/)....

Maybe TM could be not only a good application for the library catalog
itself, but to connect all this way to organize information within a
library...

Greetings,

Liliana Melgar


2007/11/26, Stringer-Hye, Suellen <suellen.stringer-hye at vanderbilt.edu>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Sorry for the delay in responding. It was a holiday here in the US last
> weekend so I'm just now getting back to my desk.
>
> As Edward noted, we did not get that many responses to our survey which
> I think shows that Topic Maps have not made significant inroads into the
> Library community, at least here in the US. Edward and I presented a
> session at this year's LITA forum (Library Information Technology
> Association) and it was met with quite a bit of enthusiasm. Here is a
> link to our powerpoint presentation.
>
> http://staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/libtech/stringer/presentationfo%2
> 0LITAonXTM3.pps
>
>
> We would love to have interested parties contribute to the Wiki. I had
> to password protect it since it was getting a lot of spam. Here's the
> user id and password.
>
> Username: admin
> Pword: T0pM4p$
>
>
> We also have a not especially active interest group for Topic Maps set
> up within LITA. I believe it could be more active but time is the
> problem. Actually finding the time to work on suitable applications of
> Topic Maps for libraries is the major impediment to their wider use.
> Currently the tools for creating good topic maps that can be easily
> presented and accessed require a certain amount of technical expertise
> or some investment of library funds, both of which are in short supply
> and great demand in libraries. The development of such tools is
> something that would probably revolutionize their use. For example, in a
> recent article that Edward and I wrote for Library Hi Tech, we posited
> that a vendor supplied tool that allowed subject bibliographers to
> easily create Topic Map driven bibliographies would be a real hit.
>
> In any case, thanks to all for starting this listserve. Hopefully we
> will be able to accomplish more collectively than we would on our own.
>
> ---Suellen
>
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> [mailto:topicmapsinlis-bounces at ligent.net] On Behalf Of Liliana Melgar
> E.
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 3:12 PM
> To: topicmapsinlis at ligent.net
> Subject: [TopicMapsInLIS] Inaugurating the list
>
> Dear members of the list,
>
> As Kevin Trainor said, I "have gotten in on the ground floor" because
> I was the first one to subscribe... And actually, what I have are some
> questions to start our dialog:
>
> Did Suellen Stringer-Hye and Edward Iglesias have published the survey
> you made about the use of Topic Maps in libraries? I found the message
> you posted in the topicmapmail mailing list, but the format of the
> survey is not longer available, and I couldn't find more information
> about it. I also found a a wiki (
> http://tm4lib.library.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage)
> that hasn't received "donations". But maybe we can start!
>
> Also, if possible, I would like to ask Suellen Stringer-Hye to allow
> me read her article (or share it in the list) "A Librarian's
> Introduction to Topic Maps".
>
> Thank you very much, and many greetings!
>
> Liliana Melgar
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Liliana Melgar
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