LIB 2'0 Hip or Hype

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LIB 2.0Hip or Hype?

• WSU Libraries Learning Break
• May 11, 2006
• John Webb

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LIB 2.0

• Make services available at the point of need
  rather than making users always come to the
  services, whether they be physical site specific
  or Web site specific
• Active Web vs Passive Web
• Library take on Web 2.0

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Web 2.0

• Freeing of data--allowing it to be exposed,
  discovered and manipulated in a variety of ways
  distinct from the purpose of the application
  originally used to gain access
• Will not necessarily require new technologies
  (except in the Library environment)

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Lib 2.0

• Disruptive change
• Challenges our considerations of our library
  services
• Challenges our current forms of offering our
  information services to our users

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Web 2.0

• Building of virtual applications--drawing data
  and functionality from a number of different
  sources as appropriate. These applications tend
  to be small, they tend to be relatively rapid to
  deploy
• E.g., various applications of Google Maps

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Web 2.0

• Participative--blogs, sharing files, or
  equivalent
• Amazon customer reviews, e.g.
• WikiPedia, e.g.
• Flickr, e.g.

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Web 2.0

• Work for the user--able to locate and assemble
  content that meets our needs as users, rather
  than forcing us to conform to the paths laid out
  for us by content owners or their intermediaries
• Lightweight, flexible, intelligent, and
  responsive applications these are what our users
  are finding in Web 2.0

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Web 2.0

• Communication and facilitating community--one to
  many in a more dynamic way than lists, e.g.
• Blog trackbacks kind of a crude example

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Web 2.0

• Remix!perhaps the most important conceptalso
  called mashups
• Find the relevant snippets and make them ours as
  well as the originators
• Architecture of participation
• Beyond the page metaphor of Web 1.0
• Deliver rich user experiences in Web 2.0

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Web 2.0

• Smart!use knowledge of us to deliver services
  that meet our needs
• Amazon recommendations, e.g.
• Real potential privacy issues here!

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Web 2.0

• The Long Taila software development
  (http//longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/)
• Analogy of the Transcontinental Railroad to
  iTunesthey both transformed the marketplace
• Aggregation of supply and the Aggregation of
  Demand (Lorcan Dempsey, http//www.dlib.org/dlib/a
  pril06/dempsey/04dempsey.html, and his blog)

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Lib 2.0

• Library is everywhere
• Lib 2.0 is available at the point of need,
  visible on a wide range of devices, and
  integrated with services from beyond the library
  such as portals, Virtual Learning Environments
  and e-Commerce applications.

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Lib 2.0

• despite any desire to the contrary on behalf of
  the library, the librarys systems are not the
  online home in which students find themselves
  spending most of their time. (Paul Miller,
  Coming Together around Library 2.0 D-Lib
  Magazine (v. 12, n.2) April 2006

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Lib 2.0

• Library invites participation
• Lib 2.0 is about encouraging and enabling a
  librarys community of users to participate,
  contributing their own views on resources they
  have used and new ones to which they might wish
  access.

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Lib 2.0

• Focus on the useruser-centered design essential
• Excellent searching is necessary but not
  sufficient (Roy Tennant Librarians like to
  search. Users like to find.)
• Beyond discoverydelivery!
• Social computing enriches the user experience
  encourages user involvement

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Lib 2.0

• Take advantage of the richness of our catalogs
  AND all of our repositories
• Enrich source data
• Consolidate print collections, e-resources,
  digital repositories, and the open resources from
  the Web
• Expose hidden collections!

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Lib 2.0

• Well integrated with all library systems and
  services
• Interoperable via a layer of Web services
• Scalable, enabling libraries to harvest new
  sources
• Evolvable, to support new standards and user needs

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Confession

• I stole most of whats in the previous 3 slides
  from the Webinar on Primo that Ex-Libris
  presented 5/9/06
• In about a week, Ill have access to the whole
  presentation archived on the Ex-Libris site
• Ill set up a showing or two later

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Web Services

• The World Wide Web is more and more used for
  application to application communication. The
  programmatic interfaces made available are
  referred to as Web services. (http//www.w3.org/20
  02/ws/)

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Web Services

• Web services provide a standard means of
  interoperating between different software
  applications, running on a variety of platforms
  and/or frameworks. Web services are characterized
  by their great interoperability and
  extensibility, as well as their
  machine-processable descriptions thanks to the
  use of XML. They can be combined in a loosely
  coupled way in order to achieve complex
  operations. Programs providing simple services
  can interact with each other in order to deliver
  sophisticated added-value services.
  (http//www.w3.org/2002/ws/Activity

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Web Services

• a Web service1 is a software system designed
  to support interoperable machine-to-machine
  interaction over a network. It has an interface
  that is described in a machine-processible format
  such as WSDL. Other systems interact with the Web
  service in a manner prescribed by its interface
  using messages, which may be enclosed in a SOAP
  envelope, or follow a REST approach. These
  messages are typically conveyed using HTTP, and
  normally comprise XML in conjunction with other
  Web-related standards. Software applications
  written in various programming languages and
  running on various platforms can use web services
  to exchange data over computer networks like the
  Internet in a manner similar to inter-process
  communication on a single computer. This
  interoperability (for example, between Java and
  Python, or Microsoft Windows and Linux
  applications) is due to the use of open
  standards. (http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_serv
  ice)

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Lib 2.0 Ex-Libris Primo Model
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Web Lib 2.0 Applications

• http//phoenix.orhost.org
• http//ispecies.org
• http//www.smpl.org/
• http//www.chicagocrime.org/

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Additional Lib 2.0 references

• http//acrlblog.org/2005/12/05/what-do-you-know-ab
  out-weblib-20/
• Paul Miller, Web 2.0 Building the New Library,
  http//www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/miller/16
• Lorcan Dempseys weblog, http//orweblog.oclc.org/

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Questions?