Will the web 2.0 change everything?
Patrick Danowski
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

Outline
• Web 2.0
• Blog and Wikis
• Social tagging
• User Generated Content
• Library 2.0
• Go where the Users are
• OPAC 2.0
• Librarian 2.0

Web 2.0

Michael Wesch: The Web is us/ing us URL::

Web 2.0
Characteristics
• The network as platform
• architecture of participation
• Data as driving force
• Perpetual beta
• Rich User Experience

Web 2.0
Some interesting services

Wiki
• wiki is a Hawaiian word
meaning \"quick\"
• Tools for collaborative
writing
• MediaWiki most known
Wiki

Wikisource

Wikisource
• Sister-project of Wikipedia
• Chosen Sources:
• Interesting and specials sources
• which are not available in full test

Metadata
• No bibliographic standards
• Goal: cooperation with libraries
• Idea: Downloadable metadata

Weblogs
• Web log
• We Blog
• Blogossphere

Social Tagging
• del.icio.us: most known social tagging
service: social bookmarking
• links with tags from reader
• Tag = free keyword

What is a tag?

• Screenshots 2 del.icio.us

• scutdl

Zotero
• Plugin for Firefox Browser(> Version 2.0)
• Organize your resources while you are
browsing them
• http://www.zotero.com

Podcasting
• „Radio Show“
• available when you
like
• get it like weblogs
via RSS
• Everyone can
podcast
(with free software)

YouTube
• Videos published by users
• Some produced by user
• from very well didactic
videos to private films
• indexing via social tagging
• http://www.youtube.com

Social Networking

MashUp
• a combination of
different services
• e.g.
FlickR & Google Maps
• Combination via APIs

Library 2.0

Definition Library 2.0
• Loosely defined model
• based on principles of the web 2.0
• openness
• linking
• reuse

Library 2.0
• Open interfaces
• Publish own content for reuse
• ReMix Culture
• Mesh-Ups:
addition from different services

http://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de

OPAC 2.0

The library goes where
the users are

Widgets and
Firefox plugins

Services
• Pageflake
• Netvibes
• iGoogle

• netvibes

Firefox Plugins
• Open Search
works for
IE 7.0, too

The library in
a virtual reality

Second Life

Librarian 2.0

Librarian 2.0
• Librarians are the base
• Web 2.0 is the tool
• Curiosity is asked
• Just try it out
• Librarian 2.0 Manifesto

User Generated
Content: New Tasks?
Who can be a filer?
Librarians can, and they should!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/260004685_8d78d

Conclusions
• Take a look at web 2.0
• Play with new services
• Be open for changes

• Become a librarian 2.0!
• Contact: Patrick.Danowski@web.de
• http://library20.ning.com/PatrickD