OCLC Online Computer Library Center
Providing access to library collections and services on the Open Web
Open WorldCat
July 2005 Chip Nilges
Vice President
New Services OCLC Online Computer Library, Inc.
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What we will cover
Open WorldCat
WorldCat as a service platform
Demonstration Futures
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What is Open WorldCat?
A cooperative approach to making library collections and services visible and available on the open Web
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Project Rationale
County Library
As seen On the Web
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Benefit to Library
Visibility of their brand, collection and services on in major search engines and other sites on the open Web
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Benefits to Searcher
Find and access library materials and services as part of their normal search engine workflow Reveals a portion of the hidden Web at point of need
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Current Partners
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Top 20 referring sites – April 2005
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Yahoo! Google Scholar Alta Vista Yahoo! UK & Ireland Google Dogpile Yahoo! Canada Overture WebSearch.com 11. AllTheWeb.com 12. Yahoo! Mexico
13. Starware
14. Yahoo! Singapore 15. Yahoo! Hong Kong 16. ViewPoint.com
17. Yahoo! Canada
18. Yahoo! Espanol 19. DashBar Search 20. CNN
10. Comet Web Search
Over 800 sites send searches to Open WorldCat
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Current Record Sets
3.4M record set
3M most widely held manifestations of the 3M most widely held works 400K records representing unique items
45M set: complete database by works 60M set: entire set Holdings served from Dublin, Ohio
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Demonstration
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Yahoo!
Find in a Library is available in Yahoo! Search Yahoo! Toolbar
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Google
Find in a library is part of Google search Google toolbar Google Scholar Google Print
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Other sites
BookPage DogPile Alta Vista
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IP-based service links
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Special Collections on Open WorldCat
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Search Tools
Search page Yahoo! Toolbar FireFox Extension Google toolbar Site Search Coming soon . . .
Item links (ISBN)
RSS
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Decisions regarding metadata . . .
What to release to partner sites? What to display in “find in a library”
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MARC fields released in 12/03
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MARC fields released as of 6/05
Visible to end users in August 2005
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What prompted changes?
Our desire to support
Access to electronic content Related information FRBR Evaluative content Better ranking
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Exercising Metadata in Open WorldCat
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Subject Link Marines – Biography – United States
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Links: Publisher Description
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Other Editions Link FRBR and Open WorldCat
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Recent Enhancements
1. Added “Virtual Reference” link 2. “Buy it” link-including donation of a portion of the proceeds to the searchers designated library 3. Enhanced Statistics and Tracking 4. Google and Yahoo! Improved indexing and launched Google Toolbar 5. OPAC registry enhancements 6. Created “Search Tools” web page
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Virtual Reference
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Book buying cooperative
Motivation
Book buying and borrowing are mutually reinforcing Libraries have begun offering both options in response to patron demand
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Example
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Coming Soon
1. Interface Redesign including FRBR and Wiki 2. Ask Jeeves Launch 3. Unified launch page for WorldCat “Discovery Services” 4. Curioser Browsing 5. “Buy the Article” pilot 6. New internet search engine and content partners
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New Interface
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Coming soon: User Contributed Content (WorldCat Meta Wiki)
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Pilot project
Phase 1: September-December
Users can add and edit evaluative content through Open WorldCat
Users can add reviews associated with a WorldCat record through Open WorldCat
Libraries can embed links to Open WorldCat into local services
Phase 2: October-June
Add the wiki functionality to FirstSearch and other OCLC Services
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Futures: Curioser
OCLC office of Research
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Problem:
OpenURL Registry
Many-to-many problems relating to resolver access through multiple open/authenticated Web sites
Solution
Centralized registry of links to, and profiles for, OpenURL resolvers A gateway that routes service requests to the appropriate resolver(s)
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User Experience
5. Resolver(s) return results Resolver A Resolver A
4. Routes to appropriate resolver(s)
3. Follows link to registry
OCLC OpenURL Registry
Resolver N
2. Returns citation
1. Searches for article
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Account Configuration
http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/open/
Branding Profiling: OPACs, Web sites, OpenURL Resolvers, Aska Services Usage statistics
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Questions?