Kirsten Houtman

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Open WorldCatAn Exciting Summer Ahead!

• Kirsten Houtman
• OCLC Peer Council

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Open WorldCatAn Exciting Winter Ahead!

• Kirsten Houtman
• OCLC Peer Council
• October 10, 2005

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Briefly, What is Open WorldCat?

• Open WorldCat is the program by which people
  searching bibliographic and search-engine sites
  can link to WorldCat and then directly into their
  area libraries OPACs to see the shelf status of
  items.

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How it works

• Search engines
• Harvest WorldCat content (a subset of WorldCat)
• Search and display with other Web content
• The user
• Performs a search and retrieves records with a
  Find In A Library link
• The user follows this link and after typing in a
  zip code or state, is given a list of libraries
  that own an item
• The user follows a link to the library OPAC or
  Web site and can view the shelf status or put a
  hold on the item if they have a library card.
  Other Information Web Sites implement static
  links for known items

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Current Partners
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What is Happening Now?

• Yahoo works great. Google usually requires the
  use of the terms find in a library or
  WorldCatLibraries to produce library results.
• Use Google or Yahoo toolbars, or a Firefox
  extension to limit to WC results
• 3.4 million records are indexed. 3 million of the
  most widely held and 400,000 unique items.

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Recent Enhancements

• Interface Redesign
• Added Virtual Reference link
• Buy it
• Search Tools, Try It and Partner web pages

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New Interface
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Virtual Reference Linking
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Book Buying Cooperative

• Motivation
• Book buying and borrowing are mutually
  reinforcing
• Libraries have begun offering both options in
  response to patron demand

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Coming Soon

• User Contributed Content Pilot (Wiki
  functionality)
• FRBR Updates
• Ask Jeeves Launch
• Open URL Registry
• Next Phase of OWC - Library Portal

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Wiki Pilot Project

• Phase 1 October-December
• Users can add and edit evaluative content
  through Open WorldCat
• Users can add reviews associated with a WorldCat
  record through Open WorldCat
• Libraries can embed links to Open WorldCat into
  local services
• Phase 2 November-June
• Add the wiki functionality to FirstSearch and
  other OCLC Services

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Example Review
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Add your information
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Locate Libraries on a Map
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OpenURL Registry

• Problem
• Many-to-many problems relating to resolver access
  through multiple open/authenticated Web sitesend
  users cant get to actual content they are
  looking for
• Solution
• Centralized registry of links to, and profiles
  for, OpenURL resolvers
• A gateway that routes service requests to the
  appropriate resolver(s)

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Maximize Open WorldCat
http//www.oclc.org/worldcat/open/
Branding Profiling OPACs, Web sites, OpenURL
Resolvers, Aska Services Usage statistics Ad
space Coming!
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A Demonstration
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Statistics Examples
Available from your FirstSearch Administrative
Module www.firstsearch.oclc.org/admin
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Statistics Examples
Available from your FirstSearch Administrative
Module www.firstsearch.oclc.org/admin
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StatisticsExamples
Available from your FirstSearch Administrative
Module www.firstsearch.oclc.org/admin
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For More Information

• Open WorldCat
• http//www.oclc.org/worldcat/open/default.htm

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If you have any questions

• Kirsten Houtman khoutman_at_wils.wisc.edu