From Moby-Dick To Mashups: Thinking About Bibliographic Networks was reported by the The FRBR Blog with the following summary:
Summary: Traditional and contemporary attempts to identify and describe simple and complex bibliographic resources have overlooked useful and powerful possibilities, due to the insufficient modeling of “bibliographic things of interest.” The presentation will introduce a resource description approach that remodels and strengthens FRBR by borrowing key concepts from Information Science and the History of Science. The presentation will reveal portions of a network of bibliographic (and other useful) relationships between printings of Melville?s novel dating from 1851-1975 into the present. In addition, structural similarities between the print publication network and the multimedia “mash-ups” seen on YouTube and other websites will be demonstrated and discussed.
Anyone creating a topic map for library resources needs to review these slides.
As the author of the “From Moby-Dick to Mashups” presentation, I would be very interested in comments from the topic map community. I have placed the presentation on SlideShare.net:
http://www.slideshare.net/RonMurray/from-mobydick-to-mashups
Please reference the images by slide# or by a range of slide numbers.
If there is interest in discussing the show (is doing so on this site OK?), I have a question or two for the implementation-minded.
Thanks
Comment by Ron Murray — August 24, 2010 @ 2:07 pm
Ron, appreciate your posting the slides to Slideshare.net.
No promises but I will post a note about your request to the topic maps list.
Yes, discussion here would be great!
Hope you are having a great week!
Patrick
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This was a really interesting article. I especially liked the explication of the relationship of trees to networks. In the library context, this image is especially useful in explaining the value of topic maps. I long for the day when we have the tools to create a “libguide” for Moby Dick like the one you describe.
Comment by Suellen Stringer-Hye — September 2, 2010 @ 9:45 am
Suellen, I thought it was a very promising article as well.
I suspect that successful tools are going to be ones that honor a user communities’ view of subject identity and builds upon that to create topic maps. A value-add from what is already known by the users.
Comment by Patrick Durusau — September 2, 2010 @ 10:26 am