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12 September 2005
Personal Libraries²
Posted by Richard Wallis at September 12, 2005 11:43 PM
I've bumped in to a couple of these so called personal Library services, LibraryThing and Reader²,recently.
They both are working on offering similar functionality - Add a book to your personal catalogue, search Amazon/Library of Congress to find it, publish you catalogue for others to see, tag your books to help build up a folksonomy, provide an RSS feed of a catalogue, list your catalogue on your blog page, etc. etc.
Now if we could just link in your account at your local library to auto add borrowed books to one of these personal catalogues...... Or even better wrap the folksonomy, tagging, list publishing, etc. in to your Library system account. Now that would be cool, especially if the aggregated folksonomy could be searchable.
What about linking in iTunes, to let you catalogue, rate, tag, and publish your music or favourite podcasts; the possibilities are endless.
As an aside, part of the reason I was attracted to these sites was their use of AJAX style programming to deliver the functionality directly in to the browser. For instance adding a new entry to Reader² is an interesting experience - as you type words in to the search prompt, a list of books previously catalogued [by others] complete with Amazon book jacket images dynamically refreshes in a panel on the right of the screen.
The use of AJAX to build sites such as these is becoming the way to do this sort of stuff. Quite right to, because the user experience it delivers is a step up from traditional web sites. No coincidence that AJAX is a significant part of the UI development work in Talis Research at the moment.
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