Title: Libraries competing in a connected world
1Libraries competing in a connected world
- Martin Borchert
- Associate Director, Access Services
- (Flexible Learning and Access Services)
Information Services
20 April 2007
2Overview
- I would like to share with you some observations
on the web, the information market, and library
technologies. No bombshells to drop. - We will meet these challenges to ensure our place
in the information market.
3Landscape Semantic Web
- To make better use of the Web, content should be
machine readable and not just readable by people.
This would provide for better searching and
integration of content. - When or is it going to happen?
- Resource Description Framework (RDF)
- Web Ontology Language (OWL)
- Extensible Markup Language (XML)
- Semantic Publishing
- Z39.50
- ExLibris MetaLib III MetaFind
4Landscape Web 2.0
- Perceived second generation of web services.
- Network as a platform.
- Users contribute and own data.
- Architecture of participation and democracy.
- Increased mobility.
- SensorWeb.
- What does it actually mean?
- Social networking
- Wikis
- Podcasts
- Weblogs
- Really Simple Sindication RSS Feeds
- Folksonomies
- Wikipedia, UTube, Flickr, MySpace
5Competing with free web resources
- We all know there are now vast amounts of quality
and authoritative information available for free.
6We can help to organise the web
7Or they can do it without us
8We are competing with e-business including
publishers
- An old and well known marketing rule
- A producer should not compete with, or under-cut
its distributors. - Wrong
9A large publisher
10And a small publisher
11Direct to mums, dads and kids
12and students
13even a library supplier
14Working with web service providers
- There is no point fighting them.
- Join them.
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17Goal is 100 available information
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19Google Books offers 'Find Libraries' catalogue
search
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21Find this book in a library links
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26Offers 'Amazon Library Lookup'
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28New age library interfaces
- We need to re-integrate the un integrated
library catalogue
29New Library System Interfaces checklist of
features
- Search OPAC, local collections, and remote
databases together - Simple Google-like default search
- Spellcheck (Did you mean)
- Relevance ranking of results
- Single work records with all manifestations
grouped (FRBR-style) - Tagging (by users or by librarians or both)
- Faceted search/clustering (refinement
suggestions) - Visual search inbuilt e.g. Grokker, Mooter
- Images, icons, visual style
- User ratings and reviews
- Links to external sites and services
- Personal space for saved records and searches
- Push citations from save file out to Connotea
e.g. - RSS
Thanks to Paul Jensen, 2007 for this slide
30An early effort using Web 2
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33Thanks to Paul Jensen, 2007 for this slide
34Thats it ?