Going Places in the Catalog:
Experimental Prototypes
Experimental prototypes illustrate the possibilities.
Note: These prototypes may prove fragile and/or incomplete.
The Cebuano Language Atlas: A set of library catalog
records in the Cebuano language and/or concerning the Cebuano
region (Philippines) was harvested internationally using Z39.50.
Latitude and longitude for places of publication and places named
in subject headings were added from gazetteers to
create two layers of dots on a map-visualization with two language maps.
Click on a point to retrieve catalog records including library location -
Prototype.
The map-based
Hindi Language Prototype
retrieves records for news reports concerning individual cities.
Clicking on a record displays the fulltext of the article in Hindi.
ECAI Iraq
is a guide to web-accessible resources on Iraq
antiquities. Searches in the website can be extended to online searches of
live search, using CHESHIRE software, of the California
Digital Library Melvyl catalog, in the sections on
Historic Sites -
clicking on Borsippa then extend the search to library books - and
Eras and Empires - try
Buyid Dynasty.