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LiveLabs PivotA Future Direction for Library Search?
David KaneSystems Librarian
Waterford Institute of Technology
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WIT LibrariesThe Library Building
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What Is Pivot?Designed to:“interact with massive amounts of data in ways
that are powerful, informative, and fun.”-Microsoft Live Labs
It is a way of:“making sense out of mountains of data”
-MIT Technology Review
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Searching in Pivot
• Drill-down to specific data – OUT• Swimming in a sea of data – IN
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Faceted Information
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Example• Using the Pivot Viewer application (you need
to download this from getpivot.com)
http://content.getpivot.com/Collections/bingnewcars/bingnewcars.cxml
A good rounded example of a fixed collection, which demonstrates the strengths of Pivot.
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Deep Zoom Image Format
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Pivot as a Data Analysis Tool• Downloaded Data about our 5,000 most
popular books from our library system.• Created a pivot collection via Excel.
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Pivot As A Data Analysis Tool
• Can See Hidden Relationships in Data Very Quickly
• Can isolate individual data points rapidly and link in to them
• Library Example: Top 5,000 books in our collection. http://library.wit.ie/pivot/
• Using a range of colour-coded images adds an extra dimension (see next slide)
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Pivot as a Data Analysis Tool
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Managing Data With Pivot
See:http://davidkane.net/?p=411
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Worth a Mention...Google Refine
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Microsoft Tools Used• Microsoft PivotViewer• Pivot Collection tool for Excel• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (For Silverlight)
Install these prerequisites– Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 – Silverlight 4 Toolkit (released April 2010)
Microsoft V.Studio Express can be downloaded for free.
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A Pivot Catalogue?
See:http://davidkane.net/?p=411
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A Dynamic Library Catalogue
Library Catalogue Server
Pivot Collection Server
Z39.50Search
.CXML, .DZI, and Other Pivot Data
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Software Used:• PHP Deepzoom (Nicolas Fabre)• ImageMagick • PHP/Yaz (IndexData.dk)• On Ubuntu Linux
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Finally:The easiest way to get started is to download
the following tools from getpivot.com:
1, PivotViewer Browser2, Excel add-on for making collections
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Online Resources 1Start with: http://getpivot.com/For Silverlight:
http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2010/07/09/data-visualization-with-silverlight-and-pivot-viewer-quickstart.aspx
And, http://blog.timmykokke.com/archive/2010/08/27/handling-pivotviewer-events.aspx
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Online Resources 2PHP Yaz:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.yaz-search.php
PHP DeepZoom: http://github.com/nfabre/deepzoom.php