Just attending an OU library gig… Paul Miller of Tallis talking about Library 2.0 … some interesting stuff coming up thick and fast, so thought I’d better blog it quickly while I’m sitting here…
Paul hosts a ‘Talking with Talis’ Library 2.0 Podcast and blogs on Panlibus, and has been talking about some interesting Web 2.0 exemplars of relevance to the library world.
For example, Dave Pattern’s University of Huddersfield GreaseMonkey script (for Firefox) ovelays, on top of an Amazon query, the ’state of availability’ of the book you are interested in (with respect to that Library). Paul’s group has extended this to provide the same service for multiple University libraries.
He’s got a prototype web service that queries 21 million bibliographic records, mashes that with Amazon’s ISBN -> book jacket renderer, mashes that with pricing info, mashes that with ‘Source’ bibliographic library holding information (which librs are holding the book), mashes that with Silkworm live access query (‘Can I GET X book from Y library’)
A number of these are integrated in a Talis research demo called Whisper, doing things such as those mentioned above, plus smart auto-completion in your search fields. Also allows you search multiple/regional libraries all at once, links in Amazon and Google info as appropriate.
He also demo’d RedLightGreen
which mashes up some services that auto-prompt you when a book you are looking for is available at a ‘relevant’ (e.g. nearby) library.
Hmm… I see he’s also blogged recently about building communities with IM : right up our alley!
If you want to play, a lot of this stuff is available for experimentation (Creative Commons License) via the Talis Developer Network.
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April 6, 2006 at 8:59 pm
The Open University, and feedback loops
I was at the Open University today, to talk about Library 2.0. I was there at the invitation of their Library, and was very impressed by the building that they have moved to since my last visit. Returning to