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What is BiblioPage.com?
BiblioPage.com is an Amazon Affiliate site. The main premise behind it is that Libraries
are often the best places to find books.
Its data is gathered from book records in libraries around the world via
the Z39.50 protocol. The interface combines library records with
Amazon data such as price, sales rank, and suggested titles to give the user a
new way of finding books. In addition to
being a unique way of finding books on Amazon, BiblioPage offers many
innovations that enhance the book finding experience. Many of these features can be adopted to fit
in with a library web site, ILS, or OPAC.
How it Works
BiblioPage.com is built with
the LAMP stack using Perl/CGI as the main scripting language.
1. A
Perl script searches for MARC records using a dictionary of 10,000
keywords. All searches are done on the Bib-1 Attribute 1016
(keyword anywhere) in PQN (Prefix Query Notation). This open ended search is meant to get as
many records is possible into the database.
The records are gathered using Net::Z3950 from
Indexdata.
2. Each MARC record is then parsed and
relevant fields are inserted into the database using
MARC::Record
and DBD::mysql.
3. Only
records with an ISBN number are kept in the database. This is to keep non-book items and other library
holdings out of the database. The
database of books is held in a single MySQL table
that is now around 300 MB and growing.
Home Page – http://www.bibliopage.com
The front page provides a
tag-cloud of the top subjects based on Amazon Sales Rank. The tag-cloud is created by taking the
average Sales Rank of the top 75 subject headings according to their size. At the bottom of the page is
five random titles from the database updated daily.
Searching – http://www.bibliopage.com/search.cgi?query=Polymers&term=subject
Search on BiblioPage.com is
powered by MySQL Full-Text.
Currently the user can search based on keyword, title, subject, author,
and ISBN. The Search page returns
results 10 at a time. If the search
returns over 50 records a “Related Categories” field appears at the beginning
of the results to suggest four or five large subject areas within that
search. Searches can also be sorted by
title, author, or subject in alphabetical order.
Popular Authors – http://www.bibliopage.com/authlist.shtml
The popular authors page is
a list complied of the authors with the largest number of titles to their name.
Detailed Record View - http://www.bibliopage.com/detail.cgi?book=27004
The detailed record contains
several features. Whether or not a
feature appears is based on the level of detail found in the MARC record.
1.
All records
contain basic bibliographic information along with a jacket image and pricing
information from Amazon if available.
2.
In the
<head> section of the HTML each item is described using Dublin Core metadata.
3.
If the record
has an LCC number up to 15 books with similar numbers will be displayed in the
“Browse the Shelf” window.
4.
The “Related Subjects” tag cloud will be
displayed if the call number associated with the particular item being view
also appears in under other subject categories.
These tags are displayed according to the frequency of their appearance
in relation to that call number.
About Me
My name is Aaron Huber and I
am a Librarian I in the Audio Visual department for the public library system
of Broward County, FL. I have an MLIS from the