A little bit about Web 2.0

Web 2.0 and Library Catalogues

Trevor PeareKeeper (Readers’ Services)

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8 December 2006

Emerging Technologies

Emerging TechnologiesWeb 2.0 and Library Catalogues

Trevor Peare December 2006

A little bit about Web 2.0

• Services, not software

• Network as a platform

• Trusting users as co-developers

• Harnessing collective intelligence

• Leveraging the long tail

• Lightweight user interfaces

• Social networking











How did he do that?

http://www.donkeymagic.co.uk/googlemap/







Bookmarklets

The LibraryLookup Project

Jon Udell (2002)



































What’s a Library Catalogue for?

1. to enable a person to find a book of which either (Finding objective)• the title • the author • the subject

is known.2. to show what the library has (Collocating objective)

• by a given author • on a given subject • in a given kind of literature

3. to assist in the choice of a book (Choice objective)• as to its edition (bibliographically) • as to its character (literary or topical)

Charles Ammi Cutter (1876)



What can a Library Catalogue do?

1. Find2. Identify3. Select4. Obtain

IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records 1998



Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records [FRBR]

Conceptual entity-relationship model

Entities: Work – Expression – Manifestation – ItemRepresent the products of intellectual or artistic endeavour.

Relationships: Links between entities to assist user to navigate the universe …

IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records 1998



What will Trinity’s Catalogue do?

1. Search2. Discover3. Refine4. Deliver

2.5 M Book records125,000 Serial records100,000 Printed Music 4,000 Non-book items 2 M Hidden records



Aquabrowser at Trinity

[Queens]



Here’s one I did earlier …

























[Queens]



Acknowledgements

• Michael VandenburgKingston Frontenac Public Library

• Eric ConderaertsProduct Manager for Vubis Smart, Infor

• Barbara McDonaldTrinity College Library Dublin



URLs used

• www.housepricemaps.co.uk/

• www.tcd.ie/Library/PrintNetworks/

• www.donkeymagic.co.uk/googlemap/

• weblog.infoworld.com/udell/stories/2002/12/11/librarylookup.html

• en.wikipedia.org/

• www.librarything.com/

• http://www.franklin.library.upenn.edu/

• http://www.aadl.org/

• http://gapines.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/



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