Bright Ideas for the Web

Darlene Fichterdarlene.fichter@usask.ca

University of Saskatchewan

Internet Librarian

Monterey, CA

November 4, 2003

Overview

External Content integration Getting easier Examples

Web parts, portlets, gadgets, widgets New mind set Examples

Land of Oz Assimilate and be assimilated

RSS and headlines

Create your own “newspaper” Use Bloglines

Publish your list to the web Sites to read

No coding Web forms Javascript Cut and paste

http://library.usask.ca/~pas508/blogline.html

News to Read

zFeeder

zFeeder is a PHP script used to display RSS content on your webpages

Show the news to your visitors

It parses RSS (or RDF or backend) files (xml files) and shows content formatted

It is simple to use, implement and customize accordingly to your needs

http://zvonnews.sourceforge.net/zfeeder.php

zFeeder Example

Show the headlines Example

Why just news stories?

High quality links to web sites? Librarians' Index to the Internet

http://www.ylpl.lib.ca.us/liintw92.rss Example

To the land of Oz and back

Future is not a page Think of it as parts Building blocks It’s not all assembled from your

database or your site

Amazon web services

Amazon web services Associate ID Web token

Light weight (non-programmer) XML Scratch Pad

Heavier weight (programming)

Each of these areas

First steps

News feed New web sites Integration of some Amazon content

Amazon for fundraising and/or content

Fundraising Set up a Amazon store Sell complimentary items – posters,

calendars, toys

Output choices

XML Get a script that can display it

XML and XSLT Use one of Amazon’s Make your own

Use a CSS

Canned XLST templates

So how can this help My Library?

Integrate this rich book content with your catalogue of books, movies, music

Provide Related LinksBe Creative

Find more by a “publisher” Scratch Pad – manufacturer

Books by Oxford University Press

From Oz to Kansas again

Jon Udell’s Library Lookup http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/

stories/2002/12/11/librarylookup.html Innovative Voyager iPac DRA Talis

Library catalog bookmarklet

Drag a link to your library to browser's link toolbar or add it to bookmarks

You can look up books at your local library when you’re on a book-related site (Amazon, BN, isbn.nu, All Consuming)

ISBN must be in the URL

ISBN

My Library Catalog

Bigger steps

Be everywhere New portal

Portal with every students course schedule, link to course web pages

What should be there?

Students – see their courses

• Ideally the library would have a list of resources for each course

Faculty

• Easy ways to link at the lesson level to our material

• We need to offer vendor products like ILSs and article databases like ProQuest that support and allow deep and persistent links

• Wizards to make this easy for our faculty

More services

HotScripts.com Search for XML http://www.hotscripts.com

Look, learn and experiment

Questions? Darlene Fichter

darlene.fichter@usask.caUniversity of Saskatchewan Librarylibrary.usask.ca/~fichter/