{"id":174,"date":"2015-07-24T09:54:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T16:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/?p=174"},"modified":"2015-07-27T11:21:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T18:21:21","slug":"home-town-library-done-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/2015\/07\/24\/home-town-library-done-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Hometown library done good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we at <a href =\"http:\/\/zepheira.com\/\">Zepheira<\/a> have taken another exciting step by publishing <a href = \"http:\/\/www.worthingtonlibraries.org\/\">Worthington Public Libraries<\/a> bibliographic records as actionable <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.libhub.org\/worthingtonlib\/\">data<\/a>. While I&#8217;m excited every time we publish a library, today is special as this is *my* library (in that I&#8217;m a proud library patron of Worthington). While publishing information to the Web allows this to be accessible to everyone, I&#8217;m particularly interested in exploring how to use global technologies to accelerate and enhance local communities. I&#8217;m wonderfully fortunate to work with a team dedicated to make this a reality by weaving the best of the Web and libraries together. In this particular case however, literally in my backyard.  <\/p>\n<p>This publication of Worthington results in a million+ resources that previously were hidden from the Web. Here are a few interesting highlights.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href = \"http:\/\/labs.libhub.org\/worthingtonlib\/portal\/The-phantom-tollbooth-Norton-Juster-\/ax6bp258\/\">The phantom tollbooth<\/a> (You&#8217;ll be hearing a lot about this of going forward &#8230; spoiler alert, I wrote about <a href = \"http:\/\/bibframe.org\/documentation\/bibframe-usecases\/#holdings\">this idea<\/a> a couple of years ago but very soon will show this in practice). But I also love that one link away from this book being able to explore <a href = \"http:\/\/labs.libhub.org\/worthingtonlib\/resource\/lExNRsi-\/\">all sorts of resources about Mathematics for kids<\/a> or <a href = \"http:\/\/labs.libhub.org\/worthingtonlib\/resource\/WRL-dUeE\/\">Mathematics (the topic) in general<\/a> which is a pretty active discussion with my children. <a href = \"http:\/\/labs.libhub.org\/worthingtonlib\/resource\/SKQGZ71q\/\">Magic<\/a> is another one&#8230;. go figure \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li>My kids are particularly interested in all things <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.libhub.org\/worthingtonlib\/resource\/rGosi4x6\/\">graphic novel&#8217;esque<\/a> and I&#8217;m amazed at how publishing MARC as Linked Data provides new ways of exploring these (really cool) resources. Case in point, I had no idea that <A href =\"http:\/\/labs.libhub.org\/worthingtonlib\/resource\/fCsjb9pV\/\">Graphic Novels in Sweden<\/a> was even a thing?! but the <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.libhub.org\/worthingtonlib\/portal\/The-troll-king-by-Kolbeinn-Karlsson\/r5b-W9Kc\/\">The troll king<\/a> proved me wrong.<\/li>\n<li>Being able to focus in on <a href = \"http:\/\/labs.libhub.org\/worthingtonlib\/resource\/d9Ekesmz\/\">Worthington, Ohio (the Place)<\/a> is pretty interesting as its the focus of a lot of different ways materials in the library are organized.  <a href = \"http:\/\/labs.libhub.org\/worthingtonlib\/resource\/p3M_tqXH\/\">The History of Worthington<\/a> is one of these aspects and from there we can find examples of <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.libhub.org\/worthingtonlib\/portal\/Style-and-structures-of-Old-Worthington-a\/gsMat6Zi\/\"> Photographic surveys<\/a> and <a href = \"http:\/\/labs.libhub.org\/worthingtonlib\/portal\/Columbus-neighborhoods-Worthington-WOSU-Public\/HJQCNnh8\/\">cool videos capturing the history<\/a> of the area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I love my job and I love my *visible* library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nToday, we at Zepheira have taken another exciting step by publishing Worthington Public Libraries bibliographic records as actionable data. While&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/2015\/07\/24\/home-town-library-done-good\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Hometown library done good&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}