Library 2.0 .
Let‘s get connected!
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Patrick Danowski
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

Types of Connections
• Library 2 User
• Library 2 Library
• Library 2 Web 2.0
• Nothing really new BUT new quality

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Library 2 User

Social Networks

Widgets

Three Ideas
• Accessing the library via
Literature Management Software
• The library as second level search
• Library as part of their networks

What is needed
• New Form of Openess for:
• User Input
• Critism
• Change in Mind
• Visitor -> Delivery
• We are not first choice but second

2
Library 2 Library

Status Quo
• Libraries exchange bibliographic data
(MARC)
• Libraries have interfaces (Z39.50)

Whats new?
• New Forms of Data
• Tags
• Review
• Rating

Conneting OPACs 2.0

Exchange with others
Literatureman. OPAC 2.0 Web 2.0
? ?
Tags Lists
Ratings Reviews

What is needed
• New Standards
• Cooperation between Projects

3
Library 2 Web 2.0 Project

Knowledge of Libarians
• Bibliographic Data
• Standards
• Authority Files
• Useful for Web 2.0?

Three Ideas
• Consuling Bloogers about Metadata in
blogposts
• Blogs as source for reviews
• Using Authority Files in Web 2.0 projects

A
Metadata in Blogposts
Xmas Special 2006

Metadata today

Cite Blogs
• Most times used:
Danowski, Patrick: Support Zotero with
Wordpress (en) In: Bibliothek 2.0 und mehr, 1
August 2007 <http://www.bibliothek2null.de/
2007/08/01/support-zotero-with-wordpress-
en/>
[3 November 2007].

COinS in Weblogs

COinS
• Context Object in Spans
• A Convention to Embed Bibliographic
Metadata in HTML
• HTML span element with class attribute set
to \"Z3988\"
• http://ocoins.info

Format (simplified)
• <span
class=\"Z3988\" title=\"ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004
rft.title=Support+Zotero... rft.aulast=Danowski
rft.aufirst=Patrick
rft.subject=Software
rft.date=2007-08-01
rft.type=blogPost
rft.identifier= http://www.bibliothek2null.de/2007/08/01/support-zotero-with-wordpress-en/
&amp;rft.language=English\">
</span>

B
Blogreviews in OPACs

Using reviews from the
Blogossphare

Microformats
web-based data formatting approach
re-use existing content as metadata
using XHTML and HTML classes / attributes
human readable
automatically processable by software

Typs of Microformats
hCard: contacts
hCalendar: dates
hReview: reviews
hResume: vitas
XFN: social networks
...

Example

The user view

Citations in Microformats
hcitation
just a first draft
libraries can / should participate
can help to map review in blogs to libraries

C
Authority Files in other
Services
e.g. Wikipedia / Flickr

Wikipedia
free encyclopedia
not free as beer, free as
speech
about 650.000 Article in
German-lang. Wikipedia
aprox. 175.000 about
Persons (25 %)

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 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
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

Last Updates
Links from the Name Authority Files to Wikipedia

Further Ideas
• Links from Wikipedia to other resources
(via Linkresolver)
• Use of Authority Files in Flickr (maschine
tag)
• Integration of Authority File Numbers in
DBpedia (stuctured data of Wikipedia in
semantic web format)

PND

What is needed
• Open Interfaces (APIs)
• Use of Web Standards
• Taking part in the discussion of new web
standards

What to keep in Mind
Openess
User Input
Critism
Change Sharing
Standards
Openess
APIs
Sharing
Use Web Standards

The next Steps start now
• Let‘s get open.
• Share: Tags, Metdata, Content, APIs
• Let us work on next generation Standards
• Contact:
Patrick.danowski@web.de