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myself leaning towards this view. I'm not as fervent as you, Jared,
but I am definitely warming to your idea (my readings in information
visualization has pushed me over the edge).

Adopting this view suggests something interesting:

1. The LIS concept of controlled vocabularies is of critical
   importance to making this all work (by CV I included facets,
   descriptive cataloguing, authority control, blah blah blah).

2. LIS has had "the answer" for a long time (maybe "the answer" is
   too strong; how about "key element")

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.

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.



--karl