Deichman RFiD

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Deichman RFiD

• The invisible link from book to information system

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RFID Radio Frequency Identification

• Antenna
• Transponder
• Transceiver

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a
wireless form of automated identification
technology.
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What is the magic?

• The antenna and the transponder are often
  combined together as a reader.
• The antenna use radio frequency waves to transmit
  a signal which activates the transponder. When
  activated the transmitter (tag) sends data back
  to the antenna.

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Active and passive tags

• Passive RFID tags does not have its own
  powersource (battery).
• The tag uses the power in the radiowave.
• Small 0.4mm. x 0.4mm (2004)
• Transmission distance is from 10mm to 5m.
• Can in theory last forever

• Active RFID tags has its own powersource
  (battery)
• Can have more memory
• Bigger than passive tags
• Transmission distance is from 10mm to 100m.
• Store data from transceiver
• Battery may last for years

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Why RFID?

• Price
• Size
• Maintenance
• Automatic
• Outlives the standard barcode tags
• Fast scanning of products

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On site Deichman Library

• Norways largest, most important library
• ItemsBooks, CD/DVD/VHS, papers, comics,
  genealogy
• Big changes ahead
• Moving to Vestbanehallen 2007/2008
• Increasing use of IT RFID

Roger Evans (Deichman) claimed that there is over
1 million items at the library.
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Security at Deichman library

• Thousands of books are stolen every year
• Electromagnetic tag vs RFID tag
• Security gate
• User-friendliness

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Observation

• How does the library customer perceive the
  technology at the library?
• Age of the customers using the library
• Other observations will be included in our
  further reports on Deichman.

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11. What do you think about the use of technology
at the library? (ie. Mediaworkshop and the
ability to search for books on a computer)?
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2. Age?
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Philosophical foundations and research relevance
issues for information research

• History
• Philosophy
• Phenomenology
• Information science

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Phenomenology

• How we structure knowledge from experience
• Focus on the human experience of the world and
  not on the world itself
• Seeks to understand how persons construct meaning
  from their experiences

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Information

• Information Behavior
• Integration levels
• Macro Containers
• Meta Information

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Relevance to RFID?

• From book to information system
• The meaning with technology
• Added functionality
• Human experience of the book with RFID

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The Periscope

• Mobile artifact
• Non-obtrusive
• Micro-mobility
• Context
• Goals