Bright Ideas for the Web

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Bright Ideas for the Web
Internet Librarian
Monterey, CA

• Darlene Fichter
• darlene.fichter_at_usask.ca
• University of Saskatchewan

November 4, 2003
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Overview

• External Content integration
• Getting easier
• Examples
• Web parts, portlets, gadgets, widgets
• New mind set
• Examples
• Land of Oz
• Assimilate and be assimilated

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RSS and headlines

• Create your own newspaper
• Use Bloglines
• Publish your list to the web
• Sites to read
• No coding
• Web forms
• Javascript
• Cut and paste

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http//library.usask.ca/pas508/blogline.html
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News to Read
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zFeeder

• zFeeder is a PHP script used to display RSS
  content on your webpages
• Show the news to your visitors
• It parses RSS (or RDF or backend) files (xml
  files) and shows content formatted
• It is simple to use, implement and customize
  accordingly to your needs
• http//zvonnews.sourceforge.net/zfeeder.php

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zFeeder Example

• Show the headlines
• Example

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Why just news stories?

• High quality links to web sites?
• Librarians' Index to the Internet
• http//www.ylpl.lib.ca.us/liintw92.rss
• Example

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To the land of Oz and back

• Future is not a page
• Think of it as parts
• Building blocks
• Its not all assembled from your database or your
  site

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Amazon web services

• Amazon web services
• Associate ID
• Web token
• Light weight (non-programmer)
• XML Scratch Pad
• Heavier weight (programming)

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Each of these areas
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First steps

• News feed
• New web sites
• Integration of some Amazon content

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Amazon for fundraising and/or content

• Fundraising
• Set up a Amazon store
• Sell complimentary items posters, calendars,
  toys

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Output choices

• XML
• Get a script that can display it
• XML and XSLT
• Use one of Amazons
• Make your own
• Use a CSS

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Canned XLST templates
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So how can this help My Library?

• Integrate this rich book content with your
  catalogue of books, movies, music

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Provide Related LinksBe Creative

• Find more by a publisher
• Scratch Pad manufacturer
• Books by Oxford University Press

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From Oz to Kansas again

• Jon Udells Library Lookup
• http//weblog.infoworld.com/udell/stories/2002/12/
  11/librarylookup.html
• Innovative
• Voyager
• iPac
• DRA
• Talis

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Library catalog bookmarklet

• Drag a link to your library to browser's link
  toolbar or add it to bookmarks
• You can look up books at your local library when
  youre on a book-related site (Amazon, BN,
  isbn.nu, All Consuming)
• ISBN must be in the URL

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ISBN
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My Library Catalog
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Bigger steps

• Be everywhere
• New portal
• Portal with every students course schedule, link
  to course web pages
• What should be there?

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• Students see their courses
• Ideally the library would have a list of
  resources for each course
• Faculty
• Easy ways to link at the lesson level to our
  material
• We need to offer vendor products like ILSs and
  article databases like ProQuest that support and
  allow deep and persistent links
• Wizards to make this easy for our faculty

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More services

• HotScripts.com
• Search for XML
• http//www.hotscripts.com

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Look, learn and experiment
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Questions?

• Darlene Fichter
• darlene.fichter_at_usask.ca
• University of Saskatchewan Library
• library.usask.ca/fichter/