Comments on: Data Entry Obsession http://www.tangognat.com/2005/09/12/data-entry-obsession/ Agent Of L.I.B.R.A.R.Y. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:16:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Tanuki http://www.tangognat.com/2005/09/12/data-entry-obsession/#comment-5032 Tanuki Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:34:02 +0000 http://www.tangognat.com/2005/09/12/data-entry-obsession/#comment-5032 They've got a nice basic template -- but I wonder about some of the omissions. It would seem, for example, that publisher, edition, and printing information, as well as the ToC (the MARC 505 field), if any; bibliographic information (pagination, presence of illustrations, nature of illustrations, size); presence of index, presence and extent of bibliography; ISBN, etc. etc. would all have to be stuffed into the Comments field, which would make it terribly unwieldy for display purposes. (Am I sounding too much like a cataloguer?) And of course you'd have to remember your tags, there don't appear to be "see" or "see also" possibilities, no practical way to build up a working thesaurus. Also no indication how it would handle diacritics or non-Roman characters. I'd also love to know if the author has a deal with Amazon for a kick-back on every book ordered on a follow-through from the links in the catalogue ... it's what I would try to set up. Helps pay for the server! Definitely an impressive bit of work, all in all. And I liked the "Made on a Mac, Built with BBEdit, Made with Lapsang Souchong" ... Some day, I hope to construct a catalogue for my own books, using Mac, BBEdit, FileMaker Pro, and Laphroaig. LibraryThing will definitely be a role model I'd consult. Tanuki They’ve got a nice basic template — but I wonder about some of the omissions. It would seem, for example, that publisher, edition, and printing information, as well as the ToC (the MARC 505 field), if any; bibliographic information (pagination, presence of illustrations, nature of illustrations, size); presence of index, presence and extent of bibliography; ISBN, etc. etc. would all have to be stuffed into the Comments field, which would make it terribly unwieldy for display purposes. (Am I sounding too much like a cataloguer?) And of course you’d have to remember your tags, there don’t appear to be “see” or “see also” possibilities, no practical way to build up a working thesaurus. Also no indication how it would handle diacritics or non-Roman characters.

I’d also love to know if the author has a deal with Amazon for a kick-back on every book ordered on a follow-through from the links in the catalogue … it’s what I would try to set up. Helps pay for the server!

Definitely an impressive bit of work, all in all. And I liked the “Made on a Mac, Built with BBEdit, Made with Lapsang Souchong” … Some day, I hope to construct a catalogue for my own books, using Mac, BBEdit, FileMaker Pro, and Laphroaig. LibraryThing will definitely be a role model I’d consult.

Tanuki

]]> By: Jon Silpayamanant http://www.tangognat.com/2005/09/12/data-entry-obsession/#comment-5026 Jon Silpayamanant Wed, 14 Sep 2005 03:31:13 +0000 http://www.tangognat.com/2005/09/12/data-entry-obsession/#comment-5026 Oh my...you shouldn't have posted that link. I might spend the rest of my life there cataloging things... Oh my…you shouldn’t have posted that link. I might spend the rest of my life there cataloging things…

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