1. Structured data, Web 2.0, libraries Lorcan Dempsey Computers in libraries Washington DC 23 March 2006

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4. OCLC Research 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 O’Reilly

5. OCLC Research Outline Lightweight service composition  Audience Level web service  greasemonkey script Ajax – rich interaction  Live Search Make data work harder:  (new) FictionFinder  Audience level Participation  reviews and WikiD

6. OCLC Research Light weight service composition  Example  Audience level web service  Greasemonkey script to expose in Amazon and Open WorldCat

7. OCLC Research 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 School0 Public0.33 Academic0.66 ARL1.00

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

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12.  The selfish gene The selfish gene  The world is flat The world is flat  Theories of the information society Theories of the information society

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14. Ajax  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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30.  Phoenix Phoenix  LCSH LCSH

31. OCLC Research Making data work harder  FictionFinder  Interface that supports searching & browsing of fiction materials cataloged in WorldCat  Retrieves ordered, FRBR- inspired results  Faceted browse  New interface available 1 st quarter 2006

32. OCLC Research Alphabetical browse display in redesigned interface

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

34. OCLC Research Don Quixote work view aggregates information from 2,367 editions in 40,212 libraries

35. OCLC Research Don Quixote work view limited to Spanish language editions ordered by latest publication date

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

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38. More than 500 libraries Results ranked by library holdings

39. OCLC Research Reordered by title 5 libraries 2368 libraries 211 libraries 9146 libraries

40. OCLC Research Special indexes for fiction

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43. 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 O’Reilly

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