[Sigia-l] ROI/Value of Search Engine Design - Resources?

[Ken Bryson]

Karl,  

Could you expand on these last two points?

> 3. LIS has failed to capitalize on this. One need look no further
>    than OPACs (electronic card catalogues) to see how badly they
>    have missed the mark.
> 

How so? Too narrowly focussed on Subject/Author/Title?

> In other words, LIS has figured out how to create a semantic layer
> and that this layer is the key, but they've done a lousy job of
> making that layer useful through an intuitive interaction layer.
> 


Can you provide and example of what you mean by "semantic layer"? 



-thanks,

kb