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Structured data,Web 2.0,libraries
Lorcan Dempsey
Computers in libraries Washington DC 23 March 2006
Overview
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Releasing value
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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
Lightweight service composition Audience Level web service greasemonkey script
Ajax – rich interaction Live Search
Make data work harder: (new) FictionFinder Audience level
Participation reviews and WikiD
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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 LevelFeatures:
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
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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The selfish gene The world is flat Theories of the information society
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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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Phoenix LCSH
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Making data work harder
FictionFinder Interface that supports
searching & browsing of fiction materials cataloged in WorldCat
Retrieves ordered, FRBR-inspired results
Faceted browse New interface available
1st quarter 2006
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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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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
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/