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From: John Mark Ockerbloom [mailto:ockerblo@pobox.upenn.edu]
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 7:42 PM
To: Wikimedia& Libraries
Subject: Re: [libraries] Linking from Wikipedia articles to local
library resources
On 3/4/13 9:35 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote:
Hi, John.
This is pretty nifty! Thanks for creating it.
I wonder: would it make sense to connect it to some of the open
resolvers out there? (or are those only useful at the item level,
whereas this produces searches?)
It depends on how the resolver is set up. Most OpenURL resolvers are
primarily designed to link to known items, whereas this is trying to
link to groups of items by or about someone or something. But the
OpenURL 1.0 specification is pretty open-ended, and could encompass
this sort of thing. I decided not to use it to implement this
particular service, but if someone's library would provide better
results via their OpenURL resolver than via their catalog or other
discovery system, I could link to it.
(If anyone would like me to try linking to their library that way,
you can let me know when you request service for the library at
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/olbpcontact?type=library
Tell me about your wishes in the "Anything we should know ..."
comment space, and leave your contact details in case I have any
questions.)
Thanks,
John
John,
What a fantastic idea! Conceptually this is the (ahem) missing link, to realign GWR
(Google> Wikipedia> References) to GWL (Google> Wikipedia> Libraries).
That's the party line we've been delivering for a long time but without software
or practice to materialize the promise.
With that in mind, I quite agree with Asaf that your notion of Forward to Libraries could
benefit from using preexisting linking technologies. With all necessary disclosure of my
OCLC-partisanship I think that instead of registering libraries through this new UPenn
database, it'd make more sense to use the already populated WorldCat Registry[1] .
There thousands of libraries are already registered with ties into their Online Catalogs,
OpenURL Resolvers, and Virtual References. Just look at the entry for UPenn [2].
This is a tremendous proposal which is theoretically complete. I'd really like to
help volunteer time and code to make it work as best as possible.
[1]
Max Klein
Wikipedia in Residence
kleinm(a)oclc.org
+17074787023
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