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More! More socialness!

» Submitted by cindi on Wed, 10/01/2008 - 11:49pm

I have been poking around Darien's site, rating and tagging a few things (and even writing a review, which I was excited to see appear on the main Darien page right away). I'm a big fan of connecting with other users on sites like flickr and Facebook, adding people to my contacts list with whom I share hobbies or interests or whose content I want to be able to return to at will.

This leads me to wonder several things:

Are any plans to add the ability to create contact lists in SOPAC? Is this a feature currently offered in some Drupal module, or would it have to be developed?

Does Darien have guidelines or policies in place regarding patron-generated content and potential concomitant privacy issues?

Do you think that privacy issues would prevent the development or debut of a feature like being able to add fellow patrons and library staff to a "friends" list in SOPAC? It would be great to be able to mark folks as "My Librarians" or "My Library Friends," but I'm just a geek that way. :)

LibraryThing and flickr keep leaping to mind as sites where user-generated content is key, but the ability to connect with fellow users is just as important. Thoughts?

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Submitted by jblyberg on Thu, 10/02/2008 - 3:00pm.

Cindi,
To answer your question simply: yes, that's the plan. Right now, I'm focused on ironing out all the issues in the beta1 code so that I can get beta2 out the door. If all goes well with that, wel'll hopefully put out a release candidate and then an officially stable release. At that point, I plan on focusing on 2.1 which will include a lot more patron-to-patron interaction. I feel that that is the direction we ought to be headed.

You can see our policies here. At present, we haven't seen a need for additional policies to cover patron behavior on our website and our privacy policy still applies.

Privacy issues will not prevent the development of any features that add significant value to SOPAC and the user experience. Libraries can make their own individual determinations as to whether they use those features or not.

Submitted by cindi on Fri, 10/03/2008 - 9:51am.

Thanks, John! I can't wait to see it.