CIL2006, Day 2: Lorcan Dempsey
Posted on March 23, 2006
Filed Under Computers in Libraries |
Structured Data, Web 2.0, Libraries
Web 2.0:
- Flat applications - lightweight service composition and web services… info can be “stitched” into other environments . It’s the “flattening” of the web (mashups)
- Rich interaction - ajax
- Data is the new functionality - make data work harder.
- participation - social networking growth
Showed Audience Level - uses type-of-library holdings data in WorldCat to calculate audience levels for books represented in WorldCat. It gives a suggestion as to what type of book it is.
Greasemonkey - works with Audience Level and imbeds the info in an Amazon page - pretty cool. It’s a form of mashup - taking info from WorldCat and displaying it in Amazon.
Ajax:
- LiveSearch
- quick searches target with each additional keystroke of search term/phrase
- retrieves ordered, FRBR_inspired results
- Narrow by dewey attributes
- shows popularity
- It also hooks up with a variety of dewey and LC subject headings
FictionFinder (screenshots of a new OCLC service):
- Pulls from WorldCat database
- Ordered by holdings - it’s pushing the most widely-held material to the top - sort of a popularity rating
- they aggregate all the details from everyone’s catalogs… so the record for the item is rich info
- It will tell you all the different versions - large print, ebooks, comic books, normal, everyday books, etc
- narrow by language
- pulls out related works
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