Making your bookshelves Google searchable

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

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
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Maybeitwas…
“Are you ready for a world where all your Libraries are full text searchable on Google?”
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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
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Canitbedone?

How to do it?
3 different ways

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!
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Create a Google Account
Go to https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount
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Wait for email confirmation
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Activate account
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Access Google Books
Goto http://books.google.com/
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Access My library
Click on My Library
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We need to add books
Click on Import Books
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Create the Nickname
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We are now ready to import books
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Grab a list of ISBN’s and paste it
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Caveats
100 ISBN’s at a time
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Caveats
Some books will be unknown to Google
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Keep adding books
100 ISBN’s at a time
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When finished
Access View my library
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Accessing the Library
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Our library is now ready
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How to use it?
3 methods

Method 1
Click “Search this user’s library”
Fill the search term
All your books which obey the search are found
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Simple Search
List View
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Simple Search
Cover View
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Advanced Search
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Advanced Search fails miserably
My library “filter” is lost
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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
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Capture Link
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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
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Notice the changes
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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
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Myownprogram
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Whythename?
Becausethedomainnamewasfree... Whyelse?
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Access BiblioThetic
http://bibliothetic.com
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Paste UID Parameter from http://books.google.com/books?uid=9624650586634350416&rview=1
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Fill your search terms
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Click the Search button
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Clicking on a cover
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Clicking on a cover
Relevant passages highlighted
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Clickonthe Google PreviewButton
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FullPreviewwithsearch box
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Embedable
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Embeddable on
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Moodle
iGoogle
NetVibes
FaceBook
etc

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Considerthistoolbecause
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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

Considerthistoolbecause
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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.

Biblio + Thetic
+ the setting forth of propositions or principles
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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
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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)
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Open for sugestionsandcommentsatjulio@janjos.com

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