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Web 2.0 and libraries: Some examples

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.

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Web 2.0 and libraries: Some examples

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  1. Web 2.0 and libraries: Some examples OCLC Members Council 13 February 2006 Lorcan Dempsey

  2. 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

  3. Outline • Highlighted projects • Lightweight service composition: Audience Level web service and greasemonkey script • Ajax: Live Search • Make data work harder: (new) FictionFinder

  4. Light weight service composition • Example • Audience level web service • Greasemonkey script to expose in Amazon and Open WorldCat

  5. 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 OCLC Research Team: Lynn Connaway (lead) Ed O’Neill Cliff Snyder Akeisha Heard Audience Level School 0 Public 0.33 Academic 0.66 ARL 1.00

  6. Audience level Web service Greasemonkey script interacts with web Service and inserts result in web page.

  7. Example: Livesearch Quick searches target with each additional keystroke of search term/phrase Retrieves ordered, FRBR-inspired results Narrow-by Dewey attributes OCLC Research Team: Thom Hickey (lead) Jenny Toves Ralph LeVan Ajax

  8. 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 FictionFinder

  9. Alphabetical browse display in redesigned interface

  10. Nearly 20,000 works retrieved The work record for Don Quixote represents 2,300+ editions

  11. Don Quixote work view aggregates information from 2,367 editions in 40,212 libraries

  12. Don Quixote work view limited to Spanish language editions ordered by latest publication date

  13. Edition (manifestation) record display Link to OCLC WorldCat Find in a Library Service

  14. Results ranked by library holdings More than 500 libraries

  15. Reordered by title 9146 libraries 2368 libraries 211 libraries 5 libraries

  16. Special indexes for fiction

  17. Related works linked

  18. 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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