Demo of a proof of concept by Júlio dos Anjos for Internet Librarian 2009

1. Making your bookshelvesGoogle searchable Demo of a proof of concept by Júlio dos Anjosfor Internet Librarian 2009

2. How it started “Are you ready for a world where all your books are full text searchable on Google?” Stephen Abram Many years ago in a roundtable I heard through a podcast long lost 10/26/2009 2 Júlio dos Anjos

3. Maybeitwas… “Are you ready for a world where all your Libraries are full text searchable on Google?” 10/26/2009 3 Júlio dos Anjos

4. Anyway… Why has no one done it yet? Can it be done? How can it be done? it: = the library’s paper based resources becoming full text searchable by Google 10/26/2009 4 Júlio dos Anjos

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6. How to do it? 3 different ways

7. Basics Create a Google account (not necessarily a Gmail account) Login Go to Google Books Go to My library Import ISBN’s You now have a “library” searchable by google! 10/26/2009 7 Júlio dos Anjos

8. Create a Google Account Go to https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount 10/26/2009 8 Júlio dos Anjos

9. Wait for email confirmation 10/26/2009 9 Júlio dos Anjos

10. Activate account 10/26/2009 10 Júlio dos Anjos

11. Access Google Books Goto http://books.google.com/ 10/26/2009 11 Júlio dos Anjos

12. Access My library Click on My Library 10/26/2009 12 Júlio dos Anjos

13. We need to add books Click on Import Books 10/26/2009 13 Júlio dos Anjos

14. Create the Nickname 10/26/2009 14 Júlio dos Anjos

15. We are now ready to import books 10/26/2009 15 Júlio dos Anjos

16. Grab a list of ISBN’s and paste it 10/26/2009 16 Júlio dos Anjos

17. Caveats 100 ISBN’s at a time 10/26/2009 17 Júlio dos Anjos

18. Caveats Some books will be unknown to Google 10/26/2009 18 Júlio dos Anjos

19. Keep adding books 100 ISBN’s at a time 10/26/2009 19 Júlio dos Anjos

20. When finished Access View my library 10/26/2009 20 Júlio dos Anjos

21. Accessing the Library 10/26/2009 21 Júlio dos Anjos

22. Our library is now ready 10/26/2009 22 Júlio dos Anjos

23. How to use it? 3 methods

24. Method 1 Click “Search this user’s library” Fill the search term All your books which obey the search are found 10/26/2009 24 Júlio dos Anjos

25. Simple Search List View 10/26/2009 25 Júlio dos Anjos

26. Simple Search Cover View 10/26/2009 26 Júlio dos Anjos

27. Advanced Search 10/26/2009 27 Júlio dos Anjos

28. Advanced Search fails miserably My library “filter” is lost 10/26/2009 28 Júlio dos Anjos

29. Method 2 Capture the link under “my library” Use the link in a web page or send it to someone else You “library” is searchable by everyone 10/26/2009 29 Júlio dos Anjos

30. Capture Link 10/26/2009 30 Júlio dos Anjos

31. Use the link elsewhere http://books.google.com/books?uid=9624650586634350416&rview=1 Send It by Email Embed it on a WebPage Access by someone else will 10/26/2009 31 Júlio dos Anjos

32. Notice the changes 10/26/2009 32 Júlio dos Anjos

33. Method 3 Use your own web based “program” to search the library Use your own pages to present the result Use Google Preview Libraries to preview the found books 10/26/2009 33 Júlio dos Anjos

34. Myownprogram 10/26/2009 Júlio dos Anjos 34

35. Whythename? Becausethedomainnamewasfree... Whyelse? 10/26/2009 Júlio dos Anjos 35

36. Access BiblioThetic http://bibliothetic.com 10/26/2009 36 Júlio dos Anjos

37. Paste UID Parameter from http://books.google.com/books?uid=9624650586634350416&rview=1 10/26/2009 37 Júlio dos Anjos

38. Fill your search terms 10/26/2009 38 Júlio dos Anjos

39. Click the Search button 10/26/2009 39 Júlio dos Anjos

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41. Clicking on a cover 10/26/2009 41 Júlio dos Anjos

42. Clicking on a cover Relevant passages highlighted 10/26/2009 42 Júlio dos Anjos

43. Clickonthe Google PreviewButton 10/26/2009 43 Júlio dos Anjos

44. FullPreviewwithsearch box 10/26/2009 44 Júlio dos Anjos

45. Embedable 10/26/2009 Júlio dos Anjos 45

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49. Embeddable on 10/26/2009 Júlio dos Anjos 49 Moodle iGoogle NetVibes FaceBook etc

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52. Considerthistoolbecause 10/26/2009 Júlio dos Anjos 52 The short time needed to set up a Google account and activating it There are several methods of generating a list of ISBN’s for almost every purpose LibraryThing, OPAC’s , Etc

53. Considerthistoolbecause 10/26/2009 Júlio dos Anjos 53 Easy to create “search boxes” for all kinds of purposes Short bibliographies, Long bibliographies, your Science Fiction collection, your Business Management collection, your Whatever collection … You can have always a list of books and some passages where the “search terms” occur in the paper resources Google Book Search box is not easily embeddable Anyway, books are notavailable to readthroughthrough Google Books, butyoubookshelves are.

54. Biblio + Thetic + the setting forth of propositions or principles 10/26/2009 Júlio dos Anjos 54

55. Current status ofproject: Still a proof of concept, although it works almost perfectly Proves that one can use Google to do “full text search” of book collection Proves that one can use Google’s own Results Page Proves that one can create Results pages and integrate with several Google Book presentation tools 10/26/2009 55 Júlio dos Anjos

56. Next Steps: Advanced Search Embeddable results on you page like Google Custom Search Engine Collection uploader with subject tagging Integration with Open URL resolvers and OPAC’s Universal Search Resolver ( as Target) 10/26/2009 56 Júlio dos Anjos

57. Open for sugestionsandcommentsatjulio@janjos.com