1. ALA Midwinter 2006 San Antonio, TX
OCLC FictionFinder
& OCLC DeweyBrowser
Eric Childress
OCLC Research

2. FictionFinder Interface: http://fictionfinder.oclc.org
Project page:
An OCLC experimental prototype
Supports searching & browsing of fiction materials cataloged in WorldCat
2.7M bibliographic records
1.2M works represented
Employs FRBR to:
Build a “work” view & cluster related records
Support the creation of special indexes
OCLC Research team:
Diane Vizine-Goetz (lead)
Roger Thompson
Carol Hickey
Lance Osborne
New version:
Available 1st quarter 2006
Improved navigation & work-based displays

3. Preview of soon-to-be-released new version

4. This is the search result for “Historical fiction”
Note the grey bars which present a simple search interface, information on the search & results count, navigation, and the ability to resort results (the default is ranking of works by numbers of libraries holding all editions)
Each search result entry now provides the uniform title & author along with a brief summary (if available)

5. Don Quixote (work display screen 1)
Clicking on Don Quixote, we see the works view
More information is provided about the workset (i.e. the collection of editions that constitute all iterations of the work)
New options for sorting and also for filtering the result to specific subsets of format or language
Don Quixote (work display screen 1)

6. Don Quixote (work display screen 2)
Note also the grey bar on the left side that allows for additional relevant searches into Fiction Finder based on characteristics of the work/workset being viewed.
Now, let’s look at the entry for an individual edition…

7. An unusually rich edition information display – depending on what information is available, the content of these screens will vary in richness.

8. Clicking the on the Find in Library link takes us to the Open WorldCat display and to a convenient library

9. Example 2: searching FictionFinder

10. Fiction Finder finds 46 fictional works in WorldCat are set in San Antonio, Texas.

11. DeweyBrowser Interface: http://deweyresearch.oclc.org/ddcbrowser/wcat
About Dewey Browser:
An OCLC experimental prototype
Supports searching & browsing collections organized by DDC
Presents search results at three levels corresponding to the three main summaries of Dewey
Collections available:
wcat – 2.2 million of the most widely held WorldCat records
abr14 – selected data from the Abridged Edition 14 of DDC
ebooks - 210,000+ electronic book records from WorldCat
Summaries can be displayed in:
English
French
German
Spanish
Swedish
OCLC Research team:
Diane Vizine-Goetz (lead)
Thom Hickey (lead)
Harry Wagner
Carol Hickey
Lance Osborne

14. Notice how many places in Dewey references to “fantasy” occur

15. DeweyBrowser - Abridged 14 collection
Selected data from the Abridged Edition 14 of DDC
Includes a collaborative editing feature that enables authorized users to suggest index terms for a DDC class (Suggested terms)
Suggested terms will be delivered to interested users via RSS

17. Once logged in, a user may enter suggested terms into a special form – the terms are then provisionally part of the record subject to review, enhancement, deletion by the Dewey editors.

19. Links OCLC FictionFinder OCLC DeweyBrowser
Interface:
Project page:
OCLC DeweyBrowser
Interface:
About DeweyBrowser:
Vizine-Goetz, Diane and Thomas B. Hickey “Getting Visual with the DeweyBrowser” NextSpace no. 1