Christina's LIS Rant
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
PHLAT for PIM
My MSR feed brought me Searching for Your Information? Go PHLAT Out By Rob Knies
So this actually takes into account (according to the press release linked above) some things brought up in the PIM session at ASIS&T last year like
In other news... The new Adobe CS2 Bridge has a Mac-like preview of materials and allows all sorts of tagging. I'm exploring that now, too, as part of my job as assistant editor of SciTech News. ¶ 11:37 AM| |cites (technorati) |
So this actually takes into account (according to the press release linked above) some things brought up in the PIM session at ASIS&T last year like
- all search no filing
- no multiple copies - folders are tags not actual locations, no one-to-one requirement (aka everything has a place and everything in its place -- which is not right for electronic resources)
- better filters
All of this functionality is designed with one overriding principle, Cutrell explains:This looks very, very cool and pretty exciting. I'll try it and report back.
“Never, ever make people think up front about how to formulate their queries. Let them formulate the query as they’re searching. Start by casting a really broad net; if it doesn’t get what you want, tweak it a little bit, and if you get results instantly when you do that, it feels very natural. You want to do as little brain work as possible to get what you want to get.”
In other news... The new Adobe CS2 Bridge has a Mac-like preview of materials and allows all sorts of tagging. I'm exploring that now, too, as part of my job as assistant editor of SciTech News. ¶ 11:37 AM| |cites (technorati) |
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