Features
OurOntario.ca – the "ONE" search, across Ontario's digital collections and sites...
and the web tools we've added to make it even easier for you to use!
Visually stunning!
View results in Google Earth
It's easy to view your search results in Google Earth, plotted in real time and space. Where on earth are your results?
Cooliris - Visual browsing
View search results in Cooliris – a 3D Wall that provides a new way to search and view thousands of images.
Flock's Media Stream viewer
MediaRSS is a media extension to the RSS feed approach. See it native in Flock (Windows and Mac).
Very useful!
Social linking
Immediate active linking and tagging to a wide array of bookmarking and social sharing sites like Digg, Delicious, Facebook, Twitter and others. Please share us!
Doing research? Manage your citations with Zotero
"The next-generation research tool - your own personal research assistant inside your browser. See it. Save it. Sort it. Search it. Cite it. Goodbye 3x5 cards, hello Zotero." Citation Management using unAPI + zotero serves up standard metadata records in MODS or Dublin Core and works where you do... in Windows/Mac/Linux.
Make "OurOntario.ca" into "Your Search" in the browser bar
The autodiscoverable Search Engine plug-in works in most modern browsers (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome). Now you can have a direct browser-bar search.
Dig a little deeper
Copy & paste a little bit of code
Take the OurOntario.ca Search Widget with you. Grab the search widget for the Our Ontario site from here. "Copy" the code provided and you'll be able to "paste" the search widget into your Facebook page, institutional website, blog or any social space.
Expose the Microformats
"Microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards." Using the OPERATOR toolbar in Firefox you can expose these bits of Contact (hCard) and Location (geo) information. It's a quick and easy way to export all the available contact information to your address book, tag a location in Google Maps or MapQuest, or download the KML file for an interactive Google Earth experience.
Get your own Gov Docs widget to go...
Our Ontario also provides a Search Widget for the Ontario Government Documents. Copy and paste the search widget for the Gov Docs site from here. Copy the code provided and you'll be able to drop this scoped search widget into your Facebook page, institutional website, blog or any other social space.
RDFa: the semantic web, enabled
"RDFa is a component of the W3C Semantic Web initiative aimed at turning the existing human-visible text and links into machine-readable data without repeating content" (view the video Primer). Hint - copy your Search Results URL into an RDFa enabled tool like OpenLink's Data Explorer.
