Making your bookshelvesGoogle searchable
Demo of a proof of concept by Júlio dos Anjos for Internet Librarian 2009
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How it started
“Are you ready for a world where all your books are full text searchable on Google?”
Stephen Abram
Many years ago in a roundtable I heard through a podcast long lost
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Maybe it was…
“Are you ready for a world where all your Libraries are full text searchable on Google?”
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Anyway…
Why has no one done it yet?
Can it be done?
How can it be done?
it: = the library’s paper based resources becoming
full text searchable by Google
Can it be done?
How to do it?
3 different ways
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Basics Create a Google account (not necessarily a Gmail
account)
Login
Go to Google Books
Go to My library
Import ISBN’s
You now have a “library” searchable by google!
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Create a Google AccountGo to
https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount
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Wait for email confirmation
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Activate account
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Access Google BooksGoto http://books.google.com/
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Access My library Click on My Library
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We need to add booksClick on Import Books
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Create the Nickname
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We are now ready to import books
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Grab a list of ISBN’s and paste it
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Caveats100 ISBN’s at a time
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CaveatsSome books will be unknown to Google
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Keep adding books100 ISBN’s at a time
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When finishedAccess View my library
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Accessing the Library
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Our library is now ready
How to use it?
3 methods
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Method 1
Click “Search this user’s library”
Fill the search term
All your books which obey the search are found
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Simple SearchList View
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Simple SearchCover View
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Advanced Search
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Advanced Search fails miserablyMy library “filter” is lost
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Method 2
Capture the link under “my library”
Use the link in a web page or send it to someone else
You “library” is searchable by everyone
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Capture Link
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Use the link elsewherehttp://books.google.com/books?
uid=9624650586634350416&rview=1
Send It by Email
Embed it on a WebPage
Access by someone else will
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Notice the changes
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Method 3
Use your own web based “program” to search the library
Use your own pages to present the result
Use Google Preview Libraries to preview the found books
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My own program
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Why the name?
Because the domain name was free... Why else?
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Access BiblioThetichttp://bibliothetic.com
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Paste UID Parameter from http://books.google.com/books?
uid=9624650586634350416&rview=1
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Fill your search terms
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Click the Search button
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Clicking on a cover
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Clicking on a coverRelevant passages highlighted
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Click on the Google Preview Button
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Full Preview with search box
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Embedable
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Embeddable on Moodle
iGoogle
NetVibes
etc
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Consider this tool because The short time needed to set up a Google
account and activating it
There are several methods of generating a list of ISBN’s for almost every purpose
LibraryThing, OPAC’s , Etc
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Consider this tool because Easy to create “search boxes” for all kinds of purposes
Short bibliographies, Long bibliographies, your Science Fiction collection, your Business Management collection, your Whatever collection …
You can have always a list of books and some passages where the “search terms” occur in the paper resources
Google Book Search box is not easily embeddable
Anyway, books are not available to read through through Google Books, but you bookshelves are.
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Biblio + Thetic
+ the setting forth of propositions or principles
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Current status of project: Still a proof of concept, although it works
almost perfectly
Proves that one can use Google to do “full text search” of book collection
Proves that one can use Google’s own Results Page
Proves that one can create Results pages and integrate with several Google Book presentation tools
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Next Steps: Advanced Search
Embeddable results on you page like Google Custom Search Engine
Collection uploader with subject tagging
Integration with Open URL resolvers and OPAC’s
Universal Search Resolver ( as Target)
Open for sugestions and comments at
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