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Shoehorning the Sacred into the Profane: 

Shoehorning the Sacred into the Profane Using COinS and WAG the Dog to Expose Collections and Services

Obtuse, arcane and marginalized:: 

Obtuse, arcane and marginalized: the watchwords of library information sharing MARC Z39.50 Metasearch etc.

OpenURL is (naturally) no exception: 

OpenURL is (naturally) no exception OpenURL 0.1 atitle=Hegel’s+dialectic+and+the+recognition+of+feminine+difference&auinit=A&aulast=Stone&date=2003&epage=139&issn=0031-8256&issue=5&sid=ISI:WoK&spage=132&stitle=PHILOS+TODAY&title=PHILOSOPHY+TODAY&volume=47

OpenURL is (naturally) no exception: 

OpenURL is (naturally) no exception OpenURL 1.0 (Z39.88) ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.atitle=Hegel’s+dialectic+and+the+recognition+of+feminine+difference&rft.auinit=A&rft.aulast=Stone&rft.date=2003&rft.epage=139&rft.issn=0031-8256&rft.issue=5&rfr_id=info:sid/ISI:WoK&rft.spage=132&rft.stitle=PHILOS+TODAY&rft.jtitle=PHILOSOPHY+TODAY&rft.volume=47

Despite our best intentions…: 

Despite our best intentions… OpenURL, in our current environment: Large barrier to implement to content providers Libraries have to keep up with maintaining link resolver at myriad vendor sites Inherent “institution-specificity” in the way OpenURL is currently enabled in dbs. Little chance of “serendipitous OpenURL discovery”

COinS: 

COinS ContextObjects in Spans Started as OpenURL Autodiscovery, briefly was known as Latent OpenURLs Dan Chudnov, Jeremy Frumkin spawned idea Opening up OpenURLs with Autodiscovery. Chudnov, Cameron, Frumkin, Singer, Yee: Ariadne #43 Eric Hellman ran with idea and helped organize some semblance of “spec” around it.

Anatomy of a COinS: 

Anatomy of a COinS <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&amp;rft.atitle=Hegel%27s%20dialectic%20and%20the%20recognition%20of%20feminine%20difference&amp;rft.jtitle=Philosophy%20today&amp;rft.issn=0031-8256&amp;rft.aulast=Stone&amp;rft.date=2003&amp;rft.spage=132&amp;rft.epage=139&amp;rft.volume=47&amp;rft.issue=5"> </span>

What’s so great about COinS?: 

What’s so great about COinS? Extremely low overhead to implement Detaches the ContextObject (metadata) from the institution-specific resolver The orders of magnitude that “lay” resources outnumber “scholarly” (blogs, wikis, search engines, etc.)

Although…: 

Although… <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&amp;rft.atitle=Hegel%27s%20dialectic%20and%20the%20recognition%20of%20feminine%20difference&amp;rft.jtitle=Philosophy%20today&amp;rft.issn=0031-8256&amp;rft.aulast=Stone&amp;rft.date=2003&amp;rft.spage=132&amp;rft.epage=139&amp;rft.volume=47&amp;rft.issue=5"> </span>

…it’s not without its own disadvantages: 

…it’s not without its own disadvantages Requires an understanding of Z39.88 * Burden of “link resolving” placed on institution/user * Currently only supports KEV style OpenURLs Is currently just another spec that is largely unknown outside this room

Overcoming the obstacles: 

Overcoming the obstacles Tools for creating COinS that require no knowledge of OpenURL Peter Binkley’s WordPress plugin Openly’s COinS Generator “Activating Agents” Bookmarklets Browser plugins Proxy support Acceptance by large web resources: wikipedia, OPACs, GoogleScholar, etc.

COinS Friendly: 

COinS Friendly HubMed WordPress Blogs SFX Menus http://ocoins.info/

Activating Agents: 

Activating Agents Bookmarklets GreaseMonkey Scripts Alf Eaton Dan Chudnov Openly Informatics’ Firefox Extension WAG the Dog

Where WAGging comes from: 

Where WAGging comes from Google Scholar announcement was inspiration Peter Binkley’s Firefox extension (now Openly’s OpenURL Referrer) Art Rhyno’s Tomcat based Google Scholar Proxy Georgia Tech: PHP Web Localizer W (Windsor) A (Alberta) G (Georgia) Always going to be useful resources outside our domain

Dissecting the Dog: 

Dissecting the Dog Screen scraping: “plugins” for Google Scholar, Scirus, PubMed Logical pattern recognition: DOIs, ISSNs, ISBNs, PubMed IDs Ingests and exudes COinS Proxies sites configured in EZProxy “WAGged” pages shareable Uses SFX API to check electronic holdings

OpenWorldcats and Dogs: 

OpenWorldcats and Dogs Follows OpenWorldcat link and grabs ISBN ISBN concordance using OCLC’s xISBN SRW against catalog, state union catalog for local holdings

WAG the Powerpoint: 

WAG the Powerpoint Google Scholar Wing drag Hegel’s Dialectic +ingenta +com

WAG the Powerpoint: 

WAG the Powerpoint Scirus: bionic hand Wikipedia: Chaos Theory PVAMU: database list

WAG the Monkey: 

WAG the Monkey Greasemonkey script “Persistent WAGger”: solves problem of knowing “when to WAG” Much faster Still in development: currently WAGs everything Example of what proxy based WAGger would look like

The WAGnet: slowly explore from here: 

The WAGnet: slowly explore from here OpenURL enabled “More like this” service Uses SFX journal categories and clickthrough stats to find journals/databases that would be similar to current citation Searches local catalog, state union catalog, or Library of Congress for LCSH, then presents first 10 items for each LCSH If journal, also links to database indexed in Will link to related library subject guide

So now what?: 

So now what? Figure out more places and ways to expose our collections and services Folksonomy? Social bookmarking? Performance and user friendliness must be improved COinS solves most of this - if widely adopted

Thanks y’all: 

Thanks y’all ross.singer@library.gatech.edu http://rsinger.library.gatech.edu/bio/