Tagging Added To Worldcat.org

摘要

The OCLC WorldCat.org team has certainly been busy: in addition to working with Google to display embedded book content right from the catalog's web interface (see Google story, p. 22) and developing an iPhone-specific WorldCat web site, they've also been hard at work integrating item tagging functionality into the catalog feature set as well. Now, logged-in users can add an unlimited number of their own tags to any item retrievable by the WorldCat.org search engine. However, in contrast to the user-added tagging features in OPAC interface replacements like SOPAC 2.0 and BiblioCommons, tags added to items on WorldCat.org have no effect on search results. Moreover, tags are currently only discoverable through the "tags" tab of an item record, or through a user's profile.