Lorcan Dempsy, OCLC
10:30-11:15am
Structured data, Web 2.0, libraries
10:30-11:15am
Structured data, Web 2.0, libraries
- Releasing value
- We have a lot of classical bibliogrpahical data
- Web 2.0
- Flat applications
- APIs
- Rich interaction
- Ajax
- Data is the new functionality
- make the data work harder
- Participation
- Social services
- Mobilizing the edge
- Contributing to create additional value
- Co-creation
- folksonomies
- Lightweight service composition
- Audience Level Web service
- human and machine readable interface that resolves OCLC record numb er or ISBN to probable audeince level
- uses type-of-library holdings data in WorldCat to calulate audience levels for books representented in WorldCat
- ARL=1.0, Academic=0.66, Public=0.33, School=0
- Greasemonkey script to expose in Amazon and Open World Cat
- Shows “audience level” result in the “Product Details” of the book’s on Amazon.com
- Funny example: “The Bibliography of Canadian Bibliographies”
- Hints at level only, not definitive
- Examples
- The Selfish Gene = 0.6
- The World is Flat = 0.5
- Theories of the Information Society = 0.71
- Ajax – rich interaction
- Live Search
- Quick searches target with each additional keystroke of search term/phrase
- retreives ordered, FRBR-instpred results
- Narrow-by Dewey attributes
- Catalog of Phoenix PL
- Indexed every three-word combination
- Display results as you type
- Ranked by holdings
- “satisficing engine” (good enough, asap)
- Many biblical references as has the most holdings
- Top categories list on the side based on DDC
- LCSH Live
- Make data harder
- Fiction Finder
- Interface that supports searching browsing of fiction materials in WorldCat
- retrieves ordered, FRBR-inspired results
- Faceted browse
- New interface available 1st qtr 2006
- aplhabetical browse by genre
- retrieves works, ordered by holdings
- click on work, get aggregate details from multiple editions in multiple libraries
- Narrow by type, language
- sort by different methods (newest, oldest, etc)
- Pick edition, link to WorldCat to find copies in libraries
- Exposes data such as literary form and setting
- links to related works, author, etc.
- Audience Level
- Participation
- Reviews WikiD
- Not covered due to time limitations
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