web 2.0 and libraries: some examples
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Web 2.0 and libraries: Some examples. OCLC Members Council 13 February 2006 Lorcan Dempsey. Flat applications Lightweight service composition and web services Rich interaction Ajax. ‘Data is the new functionality’ Make data work harder ‘Participation’. Web 2.0. Tim O’Reilly. Outline. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Web 2.0 and libraries: Some examples
OCLC Members Council13 February 2006
Lorcan Dempsey
OCLC Research
Web 2.0
Flat applications
Lightweight service composition and web services
Rich interaction
Ajax
‘Data is the new functionality’
Make data work harder
‘Participation’
Tim O’Reilly
OCLC Research
Outline
Highlighted projects
Lightweight service composition: Audience Level web service and greasemonkey script
Ajax: Live Search
Make data work harder: (new) FictionFinder
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Light weight service composition
Example
Audience level web service
Greasemonkey script to expose in Amazon and Open WorldCat
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Audience Level
Features:
Human- and machine-readable interface that resolves OCLC record number or ISBN to probable audience level
Uses type-of-library holdings data in WorldCat to calculate audience levels for books represented in WorldCat
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Lynn Connaway (lead)
Ed O’Neill
Cliff Snyder
Akeisha Heard
School 0Public 0.33Academic 0.66ARL 1.00
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Audience levelWeb service
Greasemonkey script interacts with webService and inserts result in web page.
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Ajax
Example: Livesearch
Quick searches target with each additional keystroke of search term/phrase
Retrieves ordered, FRBR-inspired results
Narrow-by Dewey attributes
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Thom Hickey (lead)
Jenny Toves
Ralph LeVan
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FictionFinder
Features
Interface that supports searching & browsing of fiction materials cataloged in WorldCat
Retrieves ordered, FRBR-inspired results
Faceted browse
New interface available 1st quarter 2006
OCLC Research team: Diane Vizine-Goetz (lead)
Roger Thompson
Carol Hickey
Lance Osborne
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Alphabetical browse display in redesigned interface
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Nearly 20,000 works retrievedThe work record for Don Quixoterepresents 2,300+ editions
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Don Quixote work viewaggregates information from 2,367 editions in 40,212 libraries
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Don Quixote work view limited to Spanish language editions ordered by latest publication date
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Link to OCLC WorldCat Find in a Library Service
Edition (manifestation)record display
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Results ranked bylibrary holdings
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Reorderedby title
5 libraries
2368 libraries
211 libraries
9146 libraries
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Special indexesfor fiction
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Related works linked
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Useful links
OCLC Research site: http://www.oclc.org/research/
OCLC FictionFinder
Interface: http://fictionfinder.oclc.org
Project page: http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/frbr/fictionfinder.htm
Audience Level
ResearchWorks info page http://www.oclc.org/research/researchworks/audience/
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