Web 2.0 and libraries: Some examples

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Web 2.0 and libraries Some examples

• OCLC Members Council
• 13 February 2006
• Lorcan Dempsey

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Web 2.0

• Flat applications
• Lightweight service composition and web
  services
• Rich interaction
• Ajax

• Data is the new functionality
• Make data work harder
• Participation

Tim OReilly
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Outline

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

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Light weight service composition

• Example
• Audience level web service
• Greasemonkey script to expose in Amazon and Open
  WorldCat

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Audience Level

• 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 ONeill
• Cliff Snyder
• Akeisha Heard

School 0 Public 0.33 Academic 0.66 ARL 1.00
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Audience level Web service
Greasemonkey script interacts with web Service
and inserts result in web page.
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Ajax

• OCLC Research Team
• Thom Hickey (lead)
• Jenny Toves
• Ralph LeVan

• Example Livesearch
• Quick searches target with each additional
  keystroke of search term/phrase
• Retrieves ordered, FRBR-inspired results
• Narrow-by Dewey attributes

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FictionFinder

• 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

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Alphabetical browse display in redesigned
interface
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Nearly 20,000 works retrieved The work record for
Don Quixote represents 2,300 editions
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Don Quixote work view aggregates information from
2,367 editions in 40,212 libraries
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Don Quixote work view limited to Spanish language
editions ordered by latest publication date
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Edition (manifestation) record display
Link to OCLC WorldCat Find in a Library Service
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Results ranked by library holdings
More than 500 libraries
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Reordered by title
9146 libraries
2368 libraries
211 libraries
5 libraries
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Special indexes for fiction
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Related works linked
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Useful links

• OCLC Research site http//www.oclc.org/research/
• OCLC FictionFinder
• Interface http//fictionfinder.oclc.org
• Project page http//www.oclc.org/research/project
  s/frbr/fictionfinder.htm
• Audience Level
• ResearchWorks info page http//www.oclc.org/resear
  ch/researchworks/audience/

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