Not a Wiki, But Freakin’ Cool
October 10th, 2005In the biggest step towards community involvement in online catalogs, OCLC has released a commenting system for Open WorldCat records. I signed up for an account and wrote my first review.
I’d love to see which library will be the first to incorporate these reviews into their online catalog (I’m not sure if this can be done yet- Lorcan?) The service may be built on a wiki-platform, but this is not a wiki. It’s actually more bloggish than wikiish (sp?). So, when will we be able to get RSS Feeds for updates on OCLC records for each book so I can follow the discussion.
Something OCLC might also want to consider: A Structured Blogging method of producing mass reviews whose data can be better understood by machines (aggregators, etc).