{"id":279,"date":"2007-09-10T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T06:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2007-09-10T18:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T06:17:00","slug":"web-2-0-library-2-0-myths-and-realities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/web-2-0-library-2-0-myths-and-realities\/","title":{"rendered":"Web 2.0 &#8211; Library 2.0: myths and realities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Paul Reynolds<\/b><br \/>(blogs at McGovern Online)<\/p>\n<p>Inevitable Paula Ryan joke &#8211; comments that he&#8217;s put on a tie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have always imagined the information space as something to which everyone has immediate and intuitive access, and not just to browse, but to create.&#8221; &#8211;Time Berners-Lee  (Possibly overstating things&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Web as platform &#8211; as opposed to desktop.  Internet as the place &#8220;in which we all live and breathe.&#8221;  User controls own data.  Web 2.0 privileges the user.  &#8220;The core creator, formerly known as the user, formerly known as the audience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Key ideas<\/p>\n<ul>\n<\/p>\n<li>Individual production and user generated content &#8211; radical decentralisation of information and content.  Of course there are some rubbish blogs.  But lets people engage at the level they want to &#8211; whether regular or irregular, serious or silly.\n<ul>\n<\/p>\n<li>Acknowledges Christchurch City Library blog &#8211; esp sending people up to festival.  Hyperlink from blog to catalogue.\n<\/li>\n<li>Hokianga exhibition blog\n<\/li>\n<li>NZ Book Month blog &#8211; voice started stiff, now unwinding, relaxing.  (Need to watch the voice.  Interesting to find a blog you like, and look back to see how the voice has developed.)\n<\/li>\n<li>Beattie&#8217;s Book Blog &#8211; criticised as being &#8216;too prolific&#8217; (posting 3-4 times a day)!  Working on voice but hasn&#8217;t found it yet as too excited about what he&#8217;s doing.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Technorati &#8211; indexes blogs.  For a blog to work it needs to be connected with other blogs.<br \/>Mashups; personalised pages with embedded content from other websites.\n<\/li>\n<li>harnessing the power of crowds &#8211; folksonomies (tagging, flickr, del.icio.us, etc\n<\/li>\n<li>data on an epic scale:  &#8220;Invisible rain is captured by web 2.0 companies and turned into mighty rivers of information.  Rivers that can be fished.&#8221; (from powerpoint) -> mash-up &#8211; the programmable web.  <b>Where are  the programmable applications coming out of libraries?<\/b>  Imagine your knowledge assets &#8211; photos, texts etc &#8211; tagged onto a map.\n<ul>\n<\/p>\n<li>Goocam\n<\/li>\n<li>TheyWorkForYou.co.nz &#8211; citizen created content site following what government is up to.  (Includes development blog.)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<\/li>\n<li>architecture of participation &#8211; opening up not just code to developers but content production to all users.\n<ul>\n<\/p>\n<li>TradeMe &#8211; works because thousands of traders doing it\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<\/li>\n<li>networking effect &#8211; the more people on a network the more effective it becomes (some contentious research on this\n<\/li>\n<li>openness\n<ul>\n<\/p>\n<li>open api (application programmable interface) &#8211; bit of software to go somewhere, get a bit of data, bring it back, do something with it; or something built by owners of data to let others take it away.\n<ul>\n<li>Te Ara: authoritative content, great website, wonderful, unique, doesn&#8217;t get enough credit &#8211; not another site in the world does the same thing so well.  And 10-year project &#8211; there&#8217;ll be a lot more, including more clever pieces of software.  But &#8211; its own world, its own sense of control &#8211; never going to become wikipedia, and shouldn&#8217;t &#8211; provided it &#8220;opens the windows&#8221;, using APIs to allow exporting data out to school sites, student learning area, federated searching, etc\n<\/li>\n<li>Matapihi: same thing:  great site but need work to &#8216;open the windows&#8217;\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/newzealand.com\/\">100% Pure New Zealand<\/a> layer on Google Earth\n<\/li>\n<li>the fitch: a record re reference queries &#8211; fits into a wiki &#8211; can be built on.  When a customer comes to a reference desk, they&#8217;re the pulse of the community.  Done around keywords, which are represented as tags, and new items in each tag can be sent out as RSS feed.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<\/li>\n<li>standards\n<\/li>\n<li>public data.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<\/li>\n<li>putting it all together\n<ul>\n<\/p>\n<li>formal &#8211; informal\n<\/li>\n<li>taxonomy &#8211; folksonomy\n<\/li>\n<li>closed (can&#8217;t use without permission) &#8211; open (mashable by default)\n<\/li>\n<li>them &#8211; us\n<\/li>\n<li>network &#8211; our space (not just a place to get stuff, but a tool space)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Digital Content strategy five-element framework &#8211; creating, accessing, sharing, managing, understanding.  Where does this leave libraries? &#8211; library websites has to dance to these principles &#8211; allow peoples&#8217; stories to be up alongside formal catalogue etc.  But not just putting into repository and sitting there; put into context.  Web 2.0 should be a participatory space.  It&#8217;s not a fad sitting over there in a corner.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Questions<\/b><br \/>No time so go to his website!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Reynolds(blogs at McGovern Online) Inevitable Paula Ryan joke &#8211; comments that he&#8217;s put on a tie. &#8220;I have always imagined the information space as something to which everyone has immediate and intuitive access, and not just to browse, but to create.&#8221; &#8211;Time Berners-Lee (Possibly overstating things&#8230;) Web as platform &#8211; as opposed to desktop. 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