Beyond the Digital Incunabular Period: Toward Web 2.0

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Beyond the Digital Incunabular Period Toward
Web 2.0

• Gideon BurtonAsst. Prof. of EnglishAssoc.
  Editor, BYU Studies
• Presentation to the Harold B. Lee LibraryTown
  Meeting, March 13, 2007

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Media Evolution
Scriptorium
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Media Evolution
Printing Press
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Media Evolution
Computer
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A Need for Change
As with individuals, universities also quickly
face obsolescence when they fail to continue to
change, grow, and adapt to their new and often
rapidly different environments. Pres. Cecil
Samuelson (A More Excellent Way A Changing
BYU in a Changing World 8/24/04)
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The Digital Incunabular Period

• New genres
• New roles relationships
• New conventions

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PDF Documents
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Beyond the book format
Image Source WikiMedia
and the physical library
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And no man putteth new wine into old bottles
else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the
wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred
but new wine must be put into new bottles. Mark
222
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Emerging Digital Genres

• E-book Collections
• Digital Scholarly Editions
• Subject Gateways / Thematic Research Collections
• Databases
• Born Digital and Social Media genres
• Wiki
• Weblog
• Podcast

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The Digital Incunabular Period

• New genres
• New roles relationships
• New conventions

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New Roles for Academic Libraries

• Brokers of digital knowledge, not just curators
  of the printed scholarly record
• Archiving as publishing
• Digital collaboration with faculty, consortia
• Keepers of the Institutional Repository
• Metadata and markup, not just cataloging

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New Relationships
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Overlapping Roles
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The Digital Incunabular Period

• New genres
• New roles relationships
• New conventions

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The Digital Incunabular Period
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Digital Conventions

• PDF (Portable Document Format)
• HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
• XML (Extensible Markup Language)
• RSS (Really Simple Syndication)

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Digital Conventions

• Web 1.0
• PDF (Portable Document Format)
• HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
• Web 2.0
• XML (Extensible Markup Language)
• RSS (Really Simple Syndication)

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The Internet is Evolving
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Web 1.0 / Web 2.0

• Web 1.0
• Static and passive
• Web as delivery medium
• Monologue
• Limited feedback (email comments passively
  allowed)
• Searching

• Web 2.0
• Dynamic and active
• Web builds and sustains communities
• Dialogue
• Content co-developed with online community
• Syndicating

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Web 1.0 / Web 2.0

• Web 1.0
• Taxonomy / Set categories
• Websites and databases as information silos
  (isolated, restricted to original presentation
  form and location)

• Web 2.0
• Folksonomy (tagging)
• Websites and databases marked with metadata and
  structured with XML (available for intelligent
  repurposing, reformatting, or combining with
  other digital resources)

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Web 2.0

• Dynamic web resources
• Push/broadcast content via RSS feeds
• Readers as authors, reviewers, collaborators
• Social software enabled
• Wikis
• Blogs and Comments
• Shared Feeds

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Wikis
A website that allows anyone visiting the site
to add, remove, or otherwise edit content,
quickly and easily. Wiki software catalogs all
prior versions, and are sometimes moderated.
Wikis are tools for pooling knowledge and for
collaborative writing.
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Blogs
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Podcasts
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Beyond the Digital Incunabular Period Toward
Web 2.0

• Gideon BurtonAsst. Prof. of EnglishAssoc.
  Editor, BYU StudiesGideon_Burton_at_byu.edu
• Presentation to the Harold B. Lee LibraryTown
  Meeting, March 13, 2007