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Amazon Book Sleuth Comprehensive Book History Referral and Comparison App Yang Guo, Crystal Yang, Yaqi Zhang Overview Amazon books poor data quality Books with multiple editions Amazon extension: Amazon book sleuth Problems of


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Amazon Book Sleuth

Comprehensive Book History Referral and Comparison App

Yang Guo, Crystal Yang, Yaqi Zhang

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Overview

» Amazon books poor data quality » Books with multiple editions » Amazon extension: Amazon book sleuth

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Problems of Current System

» Amazon and 3rd party sellers creates listings » Only the original maker of the listing can make changes to a page » Resulting in extremely static listings that may not reflect accurate information

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A Fail Case

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Solution

» Amazon Book Sleuth: A comprehensive application for Amazon that serves as a history for book editions, comparison tool, and referral guide.

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Data Source

» ISBN

  • A unique ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation (except reprints) of a book;

ebooks and hardcovers do have unique ISBNs

  • An ISBN can identify country, publisher, and edition

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Library Catalogs » Publisher (Penguin, Pearson) » Amazon » Retailers (Barnes and Noble) » User Submission

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Data Quality

  • Structured Data via Dublin Core
  • Thesauri (1st ed., first edition, First

Edition, 1 edition, and frist editon)

  • Controlled vocabulary for Dublin Core

Fields such as Language

  • User voting and submission system
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Data Model

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Data Model Mockup

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User Experience

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User Experience

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User Experience

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User Experience

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User Experience

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User Experience

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Why should Amazon care?

  • Brand Identity allowing for more efficient

marketing of products

  • Better Customer shopping experience
  • Sales information on book editions
  • Referral app
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THANKS!

Any questions?