Slides for a talk given at RLUK 2010 conference in Edinburgh on 11 November 2010. The talk focuses on the idea of switching from filtering, or blocking the publication of information to one of ...
Slides for a talk given at RLUK 2010 conference in Edinburgh on 11 November 2010. The talk focuses on the idea of switching from filtering, or blocking the publication of information to one of enabling discovery and what this means for the library and librarians.
Cameron Neylon, Advocacy Director at PLOS@Neil It looks fine to me. 56 is supposed to be blank...though I could have taken it out for the purposes of slideshare I guess2 years ago
It’s not filter failure. It’s a discovery deficit.Presentation Transcript
It’s not filter failure
It’s a discovery deficit
RLUK 11 November 2010, Edinburgh
or
Thankyou Clay Shirkey.
Now where’s my **** filter?
Some of the people
who contributed to
this presentation...
@communicating Plausible Accuracy PIERRE LINDENBAUM Mummi Thorissson
John Fabiana Kubke Richard Grant Pedro Beltrao
Neil Saunders Steve Wilson @gnat Branwen Hide Simon Coles
Dupuis Simon Philips Pawel Szcsesny Paul Miller
Tony Hey Jeremy Frey Nico Adams Richard Akerman Cavalli Gabriel
JonMat Todd Stephen BrennerTim O’Reilly Noel Gorelick
Dave de Roure Rich Apodaca
Udell ISIS LSS Group Jeremiah Faith Jean-Claude Bradley
Nicholas Cole
Michael Barton JOHN WILLINSKY Phil Lord Victoria
Stodden Martyn Bull
Stephen Friend David CrottyClay Shirky @t John Cumbers
Bora Chris Leonard Grace BaynesEva Amsen Egon
Willighagen Mark Borkum
Brian Kelly Tony Williams Dan Hagon Maxine Clarke Andrew Milsted
Zivkovic Mitch Koch Lab Michael Nielsen
Martin Fenner Steph Hannon
WaldropGreg Wilson Brian Matthews Leigh Dodds Bill Hooker
Glyn Moody Yaroslav Nikolaev Jenny Rohn Rafael Sidi Lee Smolin
Frank NormanRicardo Vidal Iain Emsley Paulo Nuin Ariel Waldmann
Timo HannayKen Shankland Lorie LeJeune
Jonathan Gray PT Sefton
Microsoft STFC Deepak Singh Shirley Wu ISIS Computing Group Helen Berman
Andrew Peter Binfield Benjamin Good Dorothea Salo Liz Lyons PLoS
Kasarskis Jen Dodd Lee Dirks Peter Murray-Rust Richard Akerman
Carole Goble Jon Eisen Jenny Hale Lakshmi Shastry Steve Koch NPG Ben Goldacre
Chad OrzelBill Flanagan Jon Tansley Michael Eisen Matt Wood
SciFoo
2008/9
Friendfeed Hope Leman Rufus Pollock Victor HenningGoogle Björn Brembs
Jo BadgeAllyson Lister Lisa Green TIM HUBBARD Rebecca Goulding
campers Euan Adie John Andy Powell Harry Collins Gavin Bell Jim Downing
Matt Johnson Wilbanks Mike Ellis DUNCAN HULL Garret Lisi Jamie McQuay
ALAN CANN Catherine Jones Andrew Farke Gavin Baker Peter Suber
Sabine HossenfelderFlickr The BioGangKevin KellyPaul Walk
Arfon Smith
Kaitlin Thaney Richard Curry Atilla Csordas Ian Mulvany
Back to them later...
Me: A brief history
Finished highschool 1990...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elsie/105716382 CC-BY
Undergrad 1991-94
First email addresss -1991
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bike/3046589822 CC-BY-SA
“You need to spend half a
day a week in the library
reading the new journals”
My project supervisor, 1994
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecadman/486261295 CC-BY-SA
Average Capacity of Human Researcher
5.00
3.75
2.50
1.25
0
1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006
Average Capacity of Human Librarian
5.00
3.75
2.50
1.25
0
1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006
One person is not enough...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/atomicjeep/2065043917 CC-BY
...but neither is a
gated community
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andypowe11/3759152528
“Skulls don’t Weinberger
David
scale”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolune/5117452872 CC-BY-SA
Networks scale
Discovery deficit
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationallibrarynz_commons/4078337883 Public Domain
Is search the answer?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ezioman/2095747903 CC-BY
A blunt instrument...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kylemay/1430449350 CC-BY
...not every problem is a nail
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bb_matt/207102083 CC-BY
Social networks scale
Social aggregation...
...but still too much content
Social annotation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/qnr/1263648697 CC-BY-SA
Each interaction adds value...
...and each
interaction
measures
value...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinksherbet/3209939998 CC-BY
...adding to my collection...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/klmircea/3210506796 CC-BY-SA
...indexing and curating
http://www.flickr.com/photos/koalazymonkey/3650487959 CC-BY
My collection.
My collection.
Not your collection.
My professional mission as a librarian is this:
Help people build their own libraries.
That's it. That's all I care about.
Daniel Chudnov, Library of Congress
http://onebiglibrary.net/story/because-this-is-the-business-weve-chosen
But we also need you.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardmoross/3947406286 CC-BY
Whither “the library”?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jhoweaa/436923541 CC-BY
Books are for use.
Every reader their book.
Every book its reader.
Save the time of the reader.
The library is a growing organism.
Simply connect.
People with content...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pedrosimoes7/2382514343 CC-BY
...content with content...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nufkin/243437309 CC-BY
...but above all...
Connect people with people
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/3088582622
The library as the
engine of discovery.
Through open
frameworks. Open data.
Open communities.
You provide the framework...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gadl/300325809 CC-BY-SA
We’ll provide the people
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mararie/3313582639/ CC-BY-SA
Don’t think about filtering.
Don’t think about control.
Enable discovery.
cn@cameronneylon.net
http://cameronneylon.net
http://slideshare.net/cameronneylon
Twitter: @cameronneylon
Friendfeed: cameronneylon
Thanks to:
Sciencetwists, Friendfeeders, and the wider online
community for ideas, criticism, and conversations.
Deepak Singh, Larry Lessig, Andy Powell, and
John Wilbanks for presentation inspiration.
Flickr for images
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