NextGen Cat - The Fear Is Here

fäb am 7. June 2008 um 1:34 Uhr | 0 Kommentare

Schon zwei, drei Wochen alt, aber bei NGC4Lib häng ich sowieso unfassbare 574 Mails zurück:
Kevin Kidd von der Data Driven Library meint zu BibTip und Userdatenauswertung das hier:

Well, there are ways of analyzing usage data without revealing who is doing what. BibTip works without identifying individual users.

That said, we have to shed this ridiculous fear of using user data, and I mean NOW. The idea that we can use a “throw -it-up-against-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks” approach to adding new services is, frankly, idiotic. Do we really think that we can add a blog, a wiki and a few tags to a catalog and then say that we’re giving users what they want? Puh-leeze. You say we need real relevancy ranking in our catalogs? Then you need to understand how users are using your data. Google has very effective relevancy rankings because it analyzes link relationships among web sites, i.e. it leverages collective intelligence.

Recht hat er, finde ich.