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OCLC Cooperative Blog: The conclusion of the Ask4Stuff experiment

Posted by Mike Teets on March 31, 2011 2:42 PM | | TrackBacks (0) | Bookmark or Share
Back last June, the OCLC Innovation Lab announced the availability of a Twitter-based service called Ask4Stuff. The idea (in a nutshell) was to let people tweet a request for information on a particular subject to the service using the #Ask4Stuff hashtag. The service would then return a link to a WorldCat.org set of resources based on a search of that subject. Later, we added a more complex multistep analysis of the request matching to various classification and ranking schemes. It was an experiment in developing a more "social search"...


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Mike Teets

I'm Mike Teets, VP Innovation at OCLC in the Innovation Lab.  We are a small group organizationally within OCLC Research.  We function as an incubator for technology and business ideas.  We primarily release services at http://experimental.worldcat.org and as experimental features and data...

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