No sooner had I blogged a Library 2.0 gig today that included some library/Amazon/ISBN/map mashup demos than Tony Hirst kicked back in with a Greasemonkey script that does all that stuff too, and more… for the Open University Library… neato…
read all about it…
Hey Tony (since I’m too lazy to send a separate email): looking through your other stuff, e.g. about Plex, etc., I sure hope you start hammering on Moodle and getting all this stuff to work seamlessly with it!!
Not to mention integration with the totally wicked Tom Heath and Mark Gaved ‘Bookshelf’ Project.
Not to mention integration with the ‘Vague Book Queries’ stuff I worked on with Jianhan Zhu and Dawei Song… get a load of this:
Although today’s web search engines are very powerful, they still fail to provide intuitively relevant results for many types of queries, especially ones that are vaguely-formed in the user’s own mind. We argue that associations between terms in a search query can reveal the underlying information needs in the users’ mind and should be taken into account in search. Our initial experimental results on a corpus of 500 books from Amazon shows that our approach can find the right books for users given authentic vague queries, even in those cases where Google and Amazon’s own book search fail.
Conf paper/tech report for that one is here (abstract and link to PDF)
Technorati Tags: web2.0, library2.0, library, mashup, whisper, bookshelf
April 7, 2006 at 12:38 am
Marc-
My GM script doesn’t really do more, it’s just a hack/localisation of Dave Pattern’s script, with a few of my OUseful redirects to simplify the code (these may be useful as part of a Bookshelf/library mashup?)
And yeah – bookshelf is on my radar (blogged here); what I want to do is think of a way to work it into a Live Clipboard demo. Any ideas?
tony
April 7, 2006 at 6:33 am
Thanks for the Live Clipboard demo link – nice stuff! …
one good thing is that at the very least, book ISBN should help avoid the name-aliasing problems that Jon talked about in his demo!
By the way, click on BuddyFinder bot in MSG or BuddySpace, and type in: find charniak -book
