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CIL2006: Exploiting the Value of Structured Metadata

Lorcan Dempsy, OCLC
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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Published by Michael Sauers

Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.

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