submitted by mark on behalf of chris gutteridge.

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make a plugin that displays book covers as if they are on a bookshelf, ordered by some fuzzy parameters - e.g. lets see all books about X, or all books by Y. Upon hovering, show the metadata. to replace the serendipity of browsing in a real library that has been lost by the digital world.

submitted 16 Feb '11, 10:52

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We did something similar for a serendipitous OPAC search for the 2009 Dev8D developer decathlon: http://vimeo.com/3289718 Serendipity was determined, IIRC, based on the (dewey?) classification.

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solved 16 Feb '11, 11:23

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Great idea! This is somehow related to our proposal. To consider library books only one can take table of contents into account to perform similarity ranking.

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solved 16 Feb '11, 21:13

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