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
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
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
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
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
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