Michael Habib | Nudging Serendipity » search/browse http://mchabib.com Nudging Serendipity - Guiding users toward discovery of unknown unknowns Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:06:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Weekly Twitter Activity 2011-10-12 http://mchabib.com/2011/10/12/weekly-twitter-activity-2011-10-12/ http://mchabib.com/2011/10/12/weekly-twitter-activity-2011-10-12/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Michael C. Habib http://mchabib.com/2011/10/12/weekly-twitter-activity-2011-10-12/
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Below are a presentation and video recently uploaded by the Scopus Marketing Team.   Please feel free to share feedback on the original items on Slideshare and YouTube.  Enjoy.

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The new WorldCat.org is a significant step forward. I am especially impressed with the efficient permanent urls (isbn/isbnnumber and oclc/oclcnumber) and the faceted browsing offered on the left of the results screen. Additionally, I like the breadcrumb trail that accompanies the faceted browsing. I am also impressed with the search speed and the simplicity of the interface. They have also describe a number of ways to integrate WorldCat into one’s browsing habits and websites. I look forward to seeing results appearing in search engine results. Overall, it seems like a significant step forward, but I need to look at it more carefully later.

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The press release is here. This is possibly the nicest library catalog I have seen they use a database/search company instead of a typical opac vendor and appear to have tweaked it extensively. AMong other things, it clusters results based off subject headings, has advanced relavency rankings, and allows browsing of the full collection. It also facilitates browsing in other innovative ways.

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Today Yahoo! announced their partnership with some academic libraries (Univ. of California and Univ. of Toronto) to digitize a ton of out of copyright materials. They also plan to digitize copyrighted materials. If I understand the details properly, there appear to be two main ways this differs from the Google Print project.

1. They plan to make all digitized materials, both in and out of copyright, freely available on the web to be indexed by any search engine that pleases. On the other hand, Google currently plans to keep books they digitize in only the Google index. The reasons for this difference are at least partially because of:

2. Yahoo! will only digitize copyrighted works when writers and/or publishers have given explicit permission to do so with the understanding that the work will be made freely available in its entirety. On the other hand, Google plans to digitize the entire collections of Stanford and Michigan allowing copyright holders the option to opt out of the program. In an attempt to stay within fair use, Google needs to keep the copies under strict lock and key and only display metadata and snippets based on a users search.

Both of these methods have their pros and cons. The new Yahoo! project is in collaboration with Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive who is a great proponent of free books. Furthermore the project, called the “Open Content Alliance”, stresses the collaborative effort between all the partners. That they are allowing all of the books to be indexed by whomever is in fact a major move towards providing open content.

However, if Google Print can win the lawsuits to allow its project, this will be a major win for fair use. I read a bunch of articles on both. Hopefully I have most of the details right. I have been spending most of my time working on formatting this thing properly, but figured I ought to get a post in.

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