GI Conference 07 Keynote - Lawrie Phipp, JISC

Slide 1: Social software, academic communities and individuals Lawrie Phipps JISC Users and Innovation Programme Joint Information Systems Committee 25/11/07 | | Slide 1

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Slide 3: Libraries have disposed of 2 million books to make way for e-learning facilities THES 16th November 2007 Joint Information Systems Committee 25/11/07 | | Slide 3

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Slide 5: One of our ‘Users’: Jane I don’t do technology! I don’t do technology! Joint Information Systems Committee 25/11/07 | | Slide 5

Slide 6: An Example  The systems would have to be  The systems are an e-representation formalised and regulated, this would of the holistic education experience, lead to a ‘loss of cool’ and therefore reflecting learning and socialisation they would be less attractive to  There are opportunities to build students communities  A fuller debate needs to be had  Students can find mentors and around issues of articulations of buddies for support ‘personal identity’.  The education sector should reflect  The use of them in learning would social systems, social network sites lead to superficial learning rather are now common and there than in-depth discussion intelligent application should be a  There would be a lack of quality skill set that students have control in the content  Our ‘users’ are already there – we  Formal use of them would make need to go after them membership compulsory, impinging the individuals rights  The network is a brand not an educational asset Joint Information Systems Committee 25/11/07 | | Slide 6

Slide 7: \"the biggest challenge that librarians face related to web 2.0 is the post scarcity society\" Joint Information Systems Committee 25/11/07 | | Slide 7

Slide 8: Two JISC Projects  TicTOCs  University of Teesside Joint Information Systems Committee 25/11/07 | | Slide 8

Slide 9: Physical browsing of latest Issues Joint Information Systems Committee 25/11/07 | | Slide 9

Slide 10: Email TOCs – require effort Your ZETOC Alert list called dff4qj belonging to the Athens username hwulibram is due to expire on Wed 21 Jun 2006. “Some users reported that the alerts they themselves had set ‘haunted them’. I have exactly the same feeling, as sometimes it feels like the alerts I have set for myself are self-inflicted spam” Jonas Holmstrom: Report on 8th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2004) Joint Information Systems Committee 25/11/07 | | Slide 10

Slide 11: RSS is currently not very user friendly  XML  RSS  RSS 1.0  RSS 2.0  RSS 0.91  PRISM  Atom  ONIX Joint Information Systems Committee 25/11/07 | | Slide 11

Slide 12: ticTOCs Table of Contents www.tictocs.ac.uk Interactive Web environment Community Networking Directory of Select TOC RSS Personalise Display Feeds Aggregate Re-use/embed Export Gateways, VREs Connotea Joint Information Systems Committee 25/11/07 | | Slide 12

Slide 13: University of Teesside  In most cases library staff have the most opportunity to interact with students and staff  Teesside are placing these staff at the centre of the student experience  Paul Mayes, the deputy librarian is responsible for developing an emerging community of practice in both academic and community areas Joint Information Systems Committee 25/11/07 | | Slide 13

Slide 14: What Next? Joint Information Systems Committee 25/11/07 | | Slide 14