CIL2006: Exploiting the Value of Structured Metadata

Lorcan Dempsy, OCLC
10:30-11:15am

Structured data, Web 2.0, libraries

• Releasing value
• We have a lot of classical bibliogrpahical data
• Web 2.0
• Flat applications
• APIs
  
• Rich interaction
• Ajax
  
• Data is the new functionality
• make the data work harder
  
• Participation
• Social services
• Mobilizing the edge
• Contributing to create additional value
• Co-creation
• folksonomies
  
• Lightweight service composition
• Audience Level Web service
• human and machine readable interface that resolves OCLC record numb er or ISBN to probable audeince level
• uses type-of-library holdings data in WorldCat to calulate audience levels for books representented in WorldCat
• ARL=1.0, Academic=0.66, Public=0.33, School=0
• Greasemonkey script to expose in Amazon and Open World Cat
• Shows "audience level" result in the "Product Details" of the book's on Amazon.com
  
• Funny example: "The Bibliography of Canadian Bibliographies"
• Hints at level only, not definitive
• Examples
• The Selfish Gene = 0.6
  
• The World is Flat = 0.5
  
• Theories of the Information Society = 0.71
  
• Ajax - rich interaction
• Live Search
• Quick searches target with each additional keystroke of search term/phrase
• retreives ordered, FRBR-instpred results
• Narrow-by Dewey attributes
• Catalog of Phoenix PL
• Indexed every three-word combination
• Display results as you type
• Ranked by holdings
• "satisficing engine" (good enough, asap)
• Many biblical references as has the most holdings
• Top categories list on the side based on DDC
• LCSH Live
• Make data harder
• Fiction Finder
• Interface that supports searching browsing of fiction materials in WorldCat
• retrieves ordered, FRBR-inspired results
• Faceted browse
• New interface available 1st qtr 2006
• aplhabetical browse by genre
• retrieves works, ordered by holdings
• click on work, get aggregate details from multiple editions in multiple libraries
• Narrow by type, language
• sort by different methods (newest, oldest, etc)
• Pick edition, link to WorldCat to find copies in libraries
• Exposes data such as literary form and setting
• links to related works, author, etc.
  
• Audience Level
  
• Participation
• Reviews WikiD
• Not covered due to time limitations