Web 2.0 and libraries: Some examples OCLC Members Council 13 February 2006 Lorcan Dempsey

Web 2.0 Flat applications Rich interaction Lightweight service composition and web services Rich interaction Ajax ‘Data is the new functionality’ Make data work harder ‘Participation’ Tim O’Reilly

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

Light weight service composition Example Audience level web service Greasemonkey script to expose in Amazon and Open WorldCat

Audience Level School 0 Public 0.33 Academic 0.66 ARL 1.00 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 O’Neill Cliff Snyder Akeisha Heard School 0 Public 0.33 Academic 0.66 ARL 1.00

Audience level Web service Greasemonkey script interacts with web Service and inserts result in web page.

old Phoenix for fallback: http://phoenix.orhost.org 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 old Phoenix for fallback: http://phoenix.orhost.org

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 Fiction records — 2.8 million Unique works — 1.4 million Total holdings — 130 million

Alphabetical browse display in redesigned interface

Nearly 20,000 works retrieved The work record for Don Quixote represents 2,300+ editions

Don Quixote work view aggregates information from 2,367 editions in 40,212 libraries

Don Quixote work view limited to Spanish language editions ordered by latest publication date

Edition (manifestation) record display Link to OCLC WorldCat Find in a Library Service

Results ranked by library holdings More than 500 libraries

Reordered by title 9146 libraries 2368 libraries 211 libraries

Special indexes for fiction

Related works linked

Useful links OCLC Research site: http://www.oclc.org/research/ OCLC FictionFinder Interface: http://fictionfinder.oclc.org Project page: http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/frbr/fictionfinder.htm Audience Level ResearchWorks info page http://www.oclc.org/research/researchworks/audience/