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

2. 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

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

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

5. 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

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

10. 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:

26. 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

27. Alphabetical browse display in redesigned interface

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

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

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

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

33. Results ranked by
library holdings
More than 500 libraries

34. Reordered by title 9146 libraries 2368 libraries 211 libraries

35. Special indexes
for fiction

36. Related works linked

38. Useful links OCLC Research site: http://www.oclc.org/research/
OCLC FictionFinder
Interface:
Project page:
Audience Level
ResearchWorks info page