The Power of the User
How Communities can help us

Outline
The Basics
Authority Files meet Wikipedia
Transcription the wiki-style
ReUse

Basics
Web 2.0
Some Web 2.0 Examples
Social Tagging
Wiki(-pedia)

Principles
Interactive
User contribution &
feedback
Open services
Reuse / Remix Culture

scutdl

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)

Indexing by the Users
Social Tagging

What is a Tag?

What is a Tag?

Library Thing (en)

Library Thing

Visualization of Indexing
Tagcloud
bigger words are
more often used

Wikipedia
project to create a free
encyclopedia
not free as beer, free as
speech
more than 825.000 Article
in German-lang. Wikipedia
aprox. 25% about persons

Metadata for Persons
created in 2005
for the German Wikipedia DVD Project of Directmedia
done by the community with a half automatic tool
between in 8 languages

Metadata
WIKIPEDIA-METADATA
NAME=Müller, Gerd
ALTERNATIVNAMEN=eigentl.
Gerhard Müller
KURZBESCHREIBUNG=deutscher
Fußballspieler
GEBURTSDATUM=[[3. November]] [[1945]]
GEBURTSORT=[[Nördlingen]], [[Bayern]]
STERBEDATUM=
STERBEORT=

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

Way of the Cooperation
Wikipedia-
Persondata-Tool
Online-Catalog
of Deutsche
Nationalbibliothek
Wikipedia
Person-article

Way of the Cooperation
Search after Persons
Wikipedia-
Persondata-Tool
Online-Catalog
of Deutsche
Nationalbibliothek
Wikipedia
Person-article

Way of the Cooperation
Search after Persons
Wikipedia-
Persondata-Tool
full PND-Data
Online-Catalog
of Deutsche
Nationalbibliothek
Wikipedia
Person-article

Way of the Cooperation
Search after Persons
Wikipedia-
Persondata-Tool
full PND-Data
Online-Catalog
of Deutsche
Nationalbibliothek
Wikipedia
Person-article

Way of the Cooperation
Search after Persons
Wikipedia-
Persondata-Tool
full PND-Data
Online-Catalog
of Deutsche
Entry of the PND-Number
Nationalbibliothek
Wikipedia
Person-article

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

Technical Realization

Technical Realization

Article Source

Article

Results of the Cooperation
Over 38.000 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

Other Authority Files and Wikipedia

Other Authority Files and Wikipedia
GKD: Institutions
100 links
finding the ID is very hard / no retrieval webservice
Complicated structure

Other Authority Files and
Wikipedia
SWD: Keywords
Already over 250 links
finding the ID is very hard / no retrieval webservice
Czech Names Authority Files
about 800 Links

Further Ideas
Links from the catalog to wikipedia
linking of other authority files
Links from Wikipedia to other resources (via
Linkresolver)

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

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

Wikisource

Wikisource
Sisterproject of Wikipedia
Choosen Sources:
interesting and special
not aviable in fill text

Metadata
No bibliografic standards
Goal: Cooperation with libraries
Idee: downloadable metadata

Technical Details
Media Wiki Extension
Name: Proofread
URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/
Extension:Proofread_Page
Works togehter with DjVu & PDF Extension

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

WSIS & PD
A rich public domain is an essential element for the
growth of the Information Society, creating multiple
benefits such as an educated public, new jobs,
innovation, business opportunities, and the
advancement of science
(WSIS Declaration of Principles point 26)

„Public domain content in the analogue world should
remain in public domain in the digital environment“

EU-Commission
„Public domain content in the analogue world should
remain in public domain in the digital environment“
(Staff Working Paper 11.08.08 7.1.3. p. 23)
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libra
doc/communications/progress/swp.pdf

Community Building
Existing Communities? (Offline / Online)
How big are this communities?
What can you offer?
Can you go to there sites?
Do you really need you own community site?

Get ready for the
unexpected ….

Get ready for the
unexpected ….
Open Up…

Get ready for the
unexpected ….
Open Up…
Let the users be creative

Get ready for the
unexpected ….
Open Up…
Let the users be creative
Let‘s work together with the users!

Get ready for the
unexpected ….
Open Up…
Let the users be creative
Let‘s work together with the users!
Patrick.Danowski@web.de