Structured data, Web 2.0, libraries Lorcan Dempsey Computers in libraries Washington DC 23 March 2006 Overview $ Releasing value OCLC Research Web 2.0 Flat applications  Lightweight service composition and web services ‘Data is the new functionality’  Make data work harder Rich interaction  Ajax ‘Participation’ Tim O’Reilly OCLC Research Outline Lightweight service composition  Audience Level web service  greasemonkey script Ajax – rich interaction  Live Search Make data work harder:  (new) FictionFinder  Audience level Participation  reviews and WikiD OCLC Research Light weight service composition  Example  Audience level web service  Greasemonkey script to expose in Amazon and Open WorldCat OCLC Research Audience Level Features:  Human- and machinereadable 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 School Public Academic ARL 0 0.33 0.66 1.00 OCLC Research Audience level Web service Greasemonkey script interacts with web Service and inserts result in web page. OCLC Research OCLC Research OCLC Research OCLC Research  The selfish gene  The world is flat  Theories of the information society OCLC Research OCLC Research Ajax Example: Livesearch  Quick searches target with each additional keystroke of search term/phrase  Retrieves ordered, FRBR-inspired results  Narrow-by Dewey attributes OCLC Research OCLC Research OCLC Research OCLC Research OCLC Research OCLC Research OCLC Research OCLC Research OCLC Research OCLC Research OCLC Research OCLC Research OCLC Research OCLC Research OCLC Research OCLC Research  Phoenix  LCSH OCLC Research Making data work harder FictionFinder  Interface that supports searching & browsing of fiction materials cataloged in WorldCat  Retrieves ordered, FRBRinspired results  Faceted browse  New interface available 1st quarter 2006 OCLC Research Alphabetical browse display in redesigned interface OCLC Research Nearly 20,000 works retrieved The work record for Don Quixote represents 2,300+ editions OCLC Research Don Quixote work view aggregates information from 2,367 editions in 40,212 libraries OCLC Research Don Quixote work view limited to Spanish language editions ordered by latest publication date OCLC Research Edition (manifestation) record display Link to OCLC WorldCat Find in a Library Service OCLC Research OCLC Research Results ranked by library holdings More than 500 libraries OCLC Research Reordered by title 9146 libraries 2368 libraries 211 libraries 5 libraries OCLC Research Special indexes for fiction OCLC Research Related works linked OCLC Research OCLC Research Web 2.0 Flat applications  Lightweight service composition and web services ‘Data is the new functionality’  Make data work harder Rich interaction  Ajax ‘Participation’ Tim O’Reilly OCLC Research Useful links  OCLC Research site: http://www.oclc.org/research/  OCLC FictionFinder  Interface: http://fictionfinder.oclc.org  Project page: http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/frbr/fictionfinder.h tm  Audience Level  ResearchWorks info page http://www.oclc.org/research/researchworks/audience/