ALA Midwinter 2006 San Antonio, TX

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ALA Midwinter 2006San Antonio, TX

• OCLC FictionFinder
• OCLC DeweyBrowser
• Eric Childress
• OCLC Research

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FictionFinder

• An OCLC experimental prototype
• Supports searching browsing of fiction
  materials cataloged in WorldCat
• 2.7M bibliographic records
• 1.2M works represented
• Employs FRBR to
• Build a work view cluster related records
• Support the creation of special indexes

• OCLC Research team
• Diane Vizine-Goetz (lead)
• Roger Thompson
• Carol Hickey
• Lance Osborne
• New version
• Available 1st quarter 2006
• Improved navigation work-based displays

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Preview of soon-to-be-released new version
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Don Quixote (work display screen 1)
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Don Quixote (work display screen 2)
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Example 2 searching FictionFinder
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DeweyBrowser

• An OCLC experimental prototype
• Supports searching browsing collections
  organized by DDC
• Presents search results at three levels
  corresponding to the three main summaries of
  Dewey
• Collections available
• wcat 2.2 million of the most widely held
  WorldCat records
• abr14 selected data from the Abridged Edition
  14 of DDC
• ebooks - 210,000 electronic book records from
  WorldCat

• Summaries can be displayed in
• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Swedish
• OCLC Research team
• Diane Vizine-Goetz (lead)
• Thom Hickey (lead)
• Harry Wagner
• Carol Hickey
• Lance Osborne

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DeweyBrowser- Abridged 14 collection

• Selected data from the Abridged Edition 14 of DDC
• Includes a collaborative editing feature that
  enables authorized users to suggest index terms
  for a DDC class (Suggested terms)
• Suggested terms will be delivered to interested
  users via RSS

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Links

• OCLC FictionFinder
• Interface http//fictionfinder.oclc.org
• Project page http//www.oclc.org/research/project
  s/frbr/fictionfinder.htm
• OCLC DeweyBrowser
• Interface http//deweyresearch.oclc.org/ddcbrowse
  r/wcat
• About DeweyBrowser http//www.oclc.org/research/r
  esearchworks/ddc/browser.htm
• Vizine-Goetz, Diane and Thomas B. Hickey. 2006.
  Getting Visual with the DeweyBrowser NextSpace
  no. 1 http//www.oclc.org/news/publications/newsle
  tters/