A few days ago Lorcan showed a cloud of terms derived from his blog. We've just brought up a new version of WorldCat Identities, and are creating clouds of FAST headings found in records associated with each Identity. Here's an image of the cloud on Lorcan's Identity page:
Clicking on the cloud above takes you to Lorcan's Identity page where the cloud lives, and clicking on the terms in the live cloud there takes you to pages such as this one on Digital libraries. We're still working the bugs out of some of these pages, so they may change over the next few days. We currently have about 1,800 pages for genre clouds (e.g. Love stories) and over a million subject cloud destinations. There is some overlap between the 'subjects' and the 'genres' which we are still trying to understand and rationalize.
--Th
Interesting stuff. I just blogged about it. Is there a limit for how much gets included in a tag cloud, or does Asimov not show up for Bible and Shakespeare (for example) for other reasons?
Posted by: walt crawford | September 10, 2007 at 17:07
I'm not sure. I do know we have some issues in computing the subject clouds. My current guess is that what you are (not) seeing is a bug.
--Th
Posted by: ThomasBHickey | September 10, 2007 at 17:36