Title: Openly Informatics, Inc' LinkBaton, Your Links That Learn
1Openly Informatics, Inc. LinkBaton, Your Links
That Learn
Solving the Appropriate Copy Problem
Eric Hellman
2NetLibrary Crime and Punishment By Fyodor
Dostoevsky
a LinkBaton adds value by learning about the
user to add personalization localization
reliability
AMAZON.COM Crime and Punishment By Fyodor
Dostoevsky
LinkBaton
Aowenfonfav a aghargh uads gioag ga greoi Crime
and Punishment GDA PGIGUIFDB
BN.COM Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
user choice
DealPilot.COM Crime and Punishment By Fyodor
Dostoevsky
http//my.linkbaton.com/
Books in Print Crime and Punishment By Fyodor
Dostoevsky
Harvard Library Crime and Punishment By Fyodor
Dostoevsky
33 Steps to the Appropriate Copy
1. Package the Link for Delivery 2. Deliver the
Link to Responder 3. Respond to the Link
4Packaging the Link for Delivery
Contenders 1. OpenURL 2. Jake Query 3.
LinkBaton Translation
since LinkBaton can translate from one format to
another during delivery, some diversity in
packaging is possible
5Delivering the Link
In deployment 1. SFX Cookie-Pusher ExLibris
in beta test 2. LinkBaton service operating
since January
Demo!!
6LinkBaton vs. SFX Cookie Pusher
architecture hubspoke bilateral integration ne
utral component integrated with
SFX linkability universal limited by
library scalability good limited to 100
providers security good easy to hijack links
7Responding to the Link
In an open architecture, many providers can
respond to a link, either in parallel or in
series library tools- OPACs (III, Endeavor,
Epixtech, ???), SilverLinker, Jake, SFX
content services- PubMed, Web of Science, Ebsco
Online, ScienceDirect, FirstSearch, Ovid
scholarly portals- ACM Library, IEEE XPlore,
Biomednet etc. internet portals- Yahoo,
Amazon, Infotrieve
8Openly Informatics, Inc.
Links that Learn made possible by Openly
Informatics LinkBaton system will be the glue
that holds together tomorrows digital library