Presentation given at World Library and Information Conference from IFLA at Durban

1. Library 2.0 and User-
Generated Content
by Patrick Danowski
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

2. Outline
1. Library 2.0 & User-Generated Content Def.
2. Example 1:
3. Example 2:
Wikipedia and 4. Social Tagging
Wikisource
Authority Filles
5. Conclusion

3. Library 2.0 & User-
Generated Content
Definitions

4. What is library 2.0?
• Term coined by Michel Casey
• Web 2.0
• Techniques
• Principles

5. Web 2.0
Techniques
• Weblogs
• Wikis
• Social Tagging
• not only linking information / linking people

6. Web 2.0
Principles
• Interactive
• User contribution & feedback
• Open services
• Reuse

7. What does that mean
for the library 2.0?
• Rethinking digital library services
• Go where the users are
(Wikipedia, del.icio.us, Second Life)
• Share content & metadata
(for reuse in other services)

8. User Generated
Content
• Everyone becomes a publisher
• Wikis, weblog, social tagging
• Encyclopedias, reviews, metadata, ...

9. 1. Example
Wikipedia and
Name Authority Files

10. Wikipedia
free encyclopedia
not free as beer, free as speech
about 600.000 Article in German-
lang. Wikipedia
aprox. 120.000 about Persons (20 %)

11. Metadata
WIKIPEDIA-METADATA
PND-DATARECORD
IDN 118737465 NAME=Müller, Gerd
005 Tp
ALTERNATIVNAMEN=eigentl.
Gerhard Müller
011 /s/f
KURZBESCHREIBUNG=deutscher
012 /svw
Fußballspieler
014 1250:01-07-88
GEBURTSDATUM=[[3. November]] [[1945]]
021 4102290-7
GEBURTSORT=[[Nördlingen]], [[Bayern]]
100 Müller, Gerd
STERBEDATUM=
101 |a|Sport-B.
200 Müller, Gerhard STERBEORT=
300 |a|1945-
310 |j|Dt. Fußballspieler
810 34.3p

12. Way of the Coopation
Search after
Wikipedia-
Persondata-Tool
full PND-Data
Online-Catalog
of Deutsche
Entry of the PND-
Nationalbibliothek Number
Wikipedia
Person-article
Link

13. Technical Realization

14. Technical Realization

15. Article Source

16. Article

17. Results of the
Cooperation
Over 22.000 link articles
A lot correction wishes for the PND
Wikipedia a good starting point for a
search
Wikipedia users can very easy
become library users

18. Classification of
Wikipedia
via Social Tagging = categories
Thoughts about classification with:
DDC (not free!)
RVK (only uses in Germany )
Basisclassification
UDC (not free, too)
Vision: A free classification for the net

19. 2. Example - Wikisource

20. Wikisource
• Sisterproject of Wikipedia
• Choosen Sources:
• Interesting and specials sources
• which are not aviable in full test

23. Metadata
• No bibliographic standards
• Goal: cooperation with libraries
• Idea: Downloadable metadatas

24. Social Tagging

25. What is a tag?

26. Social tagging
• lot of services eg. del.icio.us connotea,
Library Thing, citeUlike
• see how other taged a resource
• see which resources others taged with a tag
• find others who are interested in the same
field

28. Conclusions

29. UGC: New Tasks?
Who is sorting this?
Who can be a filer?
We can, and we should!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/260004685_8d78d

30. Conclusions
• Users can support the work of librarians
• Libraries have to build the platform
• library 2.0 = team up libraries & user

31. What shall we do?
• Be open for user contribution
• Be ready to share
• Become a librarian 2.0

32. IFLA 2.0?
• Starting up a Special Interrest Group:
Library 2.0
• Sponsored by the IT Section
• URL: http://its-sig.library2dotzero.net
• Contact:
patrick.danowski@sbb.spk-berlin.de