Sharing and Control.
Libraries using
Web 2.0/3.0
by Patrick Danowski
About me
• Computer scientist
• Academic librarian
• from 10/06 - 09/08
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
• German Union Catalogue of Serials
• Department Information- and
Datamanagement
Outline
• Web 2.0
• Social tagging
• Sharing and reuse
• Social Networking
• Web 3.0
Web 2.0 for libraries
Web 2.0
Web 2.0
Web 2.0
• Term created for a O‘Reilly Conference 2005
• Technics where already there:
• Wikis
• Blogs
• Social Tagging
• not only linking information / linking people
Web 2.0
Principles
• Interactive
• User contribution &
feedback
• Open services
• Reuse / Remix
Culture
Library
Social Tagging
• del.icio.us:
first social tagging site
social bookmarking
• links with tags
• tag = free keyword
• del.icio.us:
first social tagging site
social bookmarking
• links with tags
• tag = free keyword
Visualization of Indexing
• Tagcloud
• bigger words are
more often used
Sharing and Remix
Data is the next Intel
Inside
Tim O‘Reilly
Bibliographic Data
• created by the libraries
• controlled data
• „product“ by the library
Data and Web 2.0
• How can data get enhanced by using it?
• What can users create with the tools of
the library?
• Will control and web 2.0 fit?
• Let‘s take a look...
Yochai Benkler (Yale Law Schol) in
Steel This Film II
Open Library Project
Open Library Project
• Goal:
A free index of all books
Open Library Project
• Goal:
A free index of all books
• Access to full text if
possible
Open Library Project
• Goal:
A free index of all books
• Access to full text if
possible
Open Library Project
• Goal:
A free index of all books
• Access to full text if
possible
• users can catalogue
Open Library Project
• Goal:
A free index of all books
• Access to full text if
possible
• users can catalogue
Open Library Project
• Goal:
A free index of all books
• Access to full text if
possible
• users can catalogue
• in future: can be a source
for a book URN
Open Library Project
• bringing toghether so many data as possible
• data of publishers (ONIX)
• data of national libraries (MARC21)
Petition for free Data
• Answer to the report of the Library of
Congress's Working Group on the Future
of Bibliographic Control
• Published by the Open Knowledge
Foundation
• Free Access and Open Licence for
Bibliographic Data
• http://www.okfn.org/wiki/
FutureOfBibliographicControl
Open Licenses
Open Licenses
• Open Access
Open Licenses
• Open Access
• Berlin Declaration: worldwide, right of
access to, and a license to copy, use,
distribute, transmit and display the work
publicly and to make and distribute
derivative works, in any digital medium for
any responsible purpose
Open Licenses
• Open Access
• Berlin Declaration: worldwide, right of
access to, and a license to copy, use,
distribute, transmit and display the work
publicly and to make and distribute
derivative works, in any digital medium for
any responsible purpose
• Creative Commons Licenses:
CC-BY / CC-BY-SA
Wikisource
Wikisource
• sister project of Wikipedia
• Chosen Sources:
• Interesting and special sources
• not available until now in fulltext
Content
Content
• Allow reuse of digital objects
Content
• Allow reuse of digital objects
• Public Domain should stay public domain in
the digital world
Content
• Allow reuse of digital objects
• Public Domain should stay public domain in
the digital world
• new chances through reuse and remix
Content
• Allow reuse of digital objects
• Public Domain should stay public domain in
the digital world
• new chances through reuse and remix
• Example Wikisource
Amazon Visualization
Amazon Visualization
Amazon Visualization
Amazon Visualization
Amazon Visualization
Social Networks
Facebook
Facebook
Facebook
• Social Network
Facebook
• Social Network
• Small pieces loosely
joint
Facebook
• Social Network
• Small pieces loosely
joint
• Web 2.0 Aggregator
Facebook
• Social Network
• Small pieces loosely
joint
• Web 2.0 Aggregator
• del.icio.us
Facebook
• Social Network
• Small pieces loosely
joint
• Web 2.0 Aggregator
• del.icio.us
• Slideshare
Facebook
• Social Network
• Small pieces loosely
joint
• Web 2.0 Aggregator
• del.icio.us
• Slideshare
• Persons, Institutions
and projects
What can be done...
What can be done...
• A searchbox is nice but not the best tool
What can be done...
• A searchbox is nice but not the best tool
• Goal:You must be often of the startpage of
users to get their attention
What can be done...
• A searchbox is nice but not the best tool
• Goal:You must be often of the startpage of
users to get their attention
• Connect „My Library“ with facebook
Web 3.0
Web 3.0
• not one definition
Web 3.0
• not one definition
• Semantic Web + Web 2.0
Web 3.0
• not one definition
• Semantic Web + Web 2.0
• Semantic Web = Machine can interpret
content
Web 3.0
• not one definition
• Semantic Web + Web 2.0
• Semantic Web = Machine can interpret
content
Web 3.0
• not one definition
• Semantic Web + Web 2.0
• Semantic Web = Machine can interpret
content
• Web 2.0 = Many people create content
COinS
• Context Object in Spans
• A Convention to Embed Bibliographic
Metadata in HTML
• HTML span element with class attribute set
to quot;Z3988quot;
• http://ocoins.info
Microformats
• web-based data formatting approach
• re-use existing content as metadata
• using XHTML and HTML classes /
attributes
• human readable
• automatically processable by software
Citations in
Microformats
• hcitation
• just a first draft
• libraries can / should participate
One more thing
The mobil web
• Phones, MP3-Player, … geting mobil online
devices
• The web is getting mobil
• which new services can libraries offer in
the mobil world?
Things to remember
• Social tagging can be an additional approach
to index documents better
• Social tagging can be an additional approach
to index documents better
• Sharing of controlled bibliographic data can
make libraries an parter in the web 2.0
• Social tagging can be an additional approach
to index documents better
• Sharing of controlled bibliographic data can
make libraries an parter in the web 2.0
• Users like to remixing Content
(copyright don‘t help)
• Be a party of the users network
• Be a party of the users network
• First steps to semantic data can be done on
the presentation level
• Be a party of the users network
• First steps to semantic data can be done on
the presentation level
• The web is getting mobil.
Your turn...
• Lets get open!
Your turn...
• Lets get open!
• Questions? Discussion?
Your turn...
• Lets get open!
• Questions? Discussion?
• Patrick Danowski
patrick.danowski@web.de