Lise Summers – I’d like to propose a General discussion session on creating information rich catalogues. Essentially, I’d love to be able to add something like tags to our online catalogue, in a way that retains the authority structure and links of the ‘master’ catalogue, while at the same time allowing researchers to add information about file contents, even images of pages, to the catalogue.
The National Archives UK have a wiki page, as does PROV, but neither of these links back well to the main catalogues. Museums are using thumbnail images of their collection as a way of enticing this sort of user content, and there is the NLA newspaper project, also imaged based. But what if you don’t have or can’t have images? Put it all on Wordpress and post tags?
I’d like to take part in that session too.