1. Greasemonkey User Scripts for the UT Libraries
Angela Kille
INF385T Semantic Web
May 1, 2006

2. Overview Project background Greasemonkey
Amazon and Google Books user scripts
Demonstration
Development issues
Future development

3. Background Mashup Go where the user is … Google and Amazon!
LibraryLookup project – bookmarklet

4. Greasemonkey http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org
Extension for Firefox web browser
Allows you to change the behavior of web pages with user scripts (JavaScript files)

5. The User Scripts Two user scripts Scripts are almost identical
Amazon UT Libraries Linky
Google Books UT Libraries Linky
Scripts are almost identical

6. Features Common features: Amazon script Does an ISBN search
Identifies whether the UT Libraries owns a book
“This book is in the UT Libraries!”
“ISBN not found in the UT Libraries”
Creates direct link to the library catalog
Book icon
Amazon script
Has additional link to do an author keyword search in the library catalog

7. Demonstration

8. Development Issues
UT Libraries catalog does not provide any textual indication of availability
Could not implement various catalog statements because of this, for example:
“Checked out due 06/01/06”
“On order”
“No longer available”

9. Future development Amazon script Google script
Creating a title search link that won’t search anything in parentheses
xISBN version of script
Google script
Adding author search link

10. Resources User scripts I built upon:
– Google Books AADL Linky and Amazon AADL Linky from Edward Vielmetti’s site
– Previous Amazon/UT Libraries script
Other library-related user scripts
Jon Udell’s LibraryLookup Project
weblog.infoworld.com/udell/stories/2002/12/11/librarylookup.html
Jon Udell’s xISBN user script
weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2006/01/30.html
OCLC’s xISBN project

11. Questions?