Exploring Leading Edge Technologies: Webcast Agenda & Benefits

1. Infopeople Webcast Series:Technology Tuesdays

2. Leading Edge TechnologiesAn Infopeople Webcast Tuesday, January 17 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. Roy Tennant roy.tennant@ucop.edu

3. Housekeeping Don’t wait for Q&A to submit questions • Today’s webcast: • presentation: 50 minutes • Q&A: final 10 minutes • Submit your questions via ‘Chat’ during webcast so presenter gets them in time • Fill out evaluation during Q&A Webcast Archives: http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/archived.html

4. When to Use Chat • Get help with technical difficulties • send message to “HorizonHelp” • Ask presenter questions • send message to “ALL” • Chat with other participants • “select name from dropdown list” Chat Area There List of Participants There

5. Agenda • Better Search Systems • Web 2.0 • Collaborative Filtering • What to Do

6. Better Search Systems

7. Better Library Catalogs • Better exposure of controlled vocabularies • Better browsing opportunities • Enhanced records • Relevance ranking • Recommendations • Grouped displays • Linkages to additional content/info/services

12. CSU San Marcos X9

20. http://www.loc.gov/standards/catenrich/

23. FRBR • Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (from IFLA) • A conceptual framework: • Work (Hamlet: Prince of Denmark) • Expression (a Russian translation) • Manifestation (third printing) • Item (copy 2) • Records for manifestations (presently separate) can be collapsed into one item at the work or expression level

26. OCLC — Curiouser

27. Metasearching • Searching two or more separate sources simultaneously • Often includes: • Merged and deduplicated search results • Ability to save/email/download citations • Can include: • Relevance ranking

28. Why Metasearching? • Only librarians like to search, everyone else prefers to find • Libraries increasingly offer a staggering array of resources • Google has increased user expectations and their impatience • New technologies are offering a possible solution

29. Benefits • For users: one place to search, no need to learn multiple interfaces, other services more easily integrated • For staff: decreased need to lead users to individual databases and teach multiple interfaces • What this replaces: possibly a subject guide to databases, but does not replace any software component libraries currently have

35. Web 2.0

36. Web 2.0 • Web 1.0: client sends request, server sends HTML page, connection dropped, client renders page • Web 2.0: a set of technologies that enables grabbing information dynamically from various sources and presenting it in a highly interactive way • Technologies involved: • HTTP, HTML, etc. • Web Services • AJAX

37. Web Services: SOAP or REST • A method to exchange structured information (i.e., XML) between applications: • SOAP: request is packaged up as an XML file; or, • REST: request is packaged up as a URL with parameters: http://oai.cdlib.org/?verb=Identify • The response is always XML

38. Google Maps

39. Ajax • A particular flavor of Web Services that uses Javascript, XHTML, and CSS in addition to XML • Provides highly interactive interfaces without web page reloads • Google Maps prime example, but rapid uptake

40. OCLC — Live Search Demo at http://phoenix.orhost.org/

41. “Mashups” • Using other people’s data in a presentation you control • Uses Ajax technologies • The opposite of silo systems: systems that can mix and match data from multiple sources you do not control

45. Collaborative Filtering

46. Collaborative Filtering • Links • Del.icio.us • Unalog • Music • Last.fm (Audioscrobbler) • Books • Amazon’s lists • Movies • MovieLens • Photos • Flickr

47. Flickr, unalog,