Ellyssa Kroski

UnConferences
• “A facilitated participant‐driven conference
A facilitated, participant driven conference
centered around a theme or purpose.” –
Wikipedia
• Informal gatherings
• Al
Also called Camps
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• Attendees drive direction
• Breakout discussion groups
• Few if any formal speakers
Few, if any formal speakers

LibraryCamp 2006
• April 2006
April 2006
• Ann Arbor District Library, MI
• First library unconference
First library unconference

LibraryCamp NYC
• August 2007
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• Baruch College, NYC
http://librarycampnyc.wikispaces.com

LibraryCamp Kansas
• March 2008
March 2008
• Kansas State University,
KS
http://librarycampks.wetpaint.com

Library 2.0 Australia
Library 2.0 Australia
• August 2008
• Library 2.0 and beyond:
getting our hands dirty
• State Library of Western
Australia, Perth,
Australia
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http://unconferencewalibrary.pbwiki.com

Upcoming Library Camps
Upcoming Library Camps
• ACRL Unconference 2009 Good Shepherd
ACRL Unconference 2009, Good Shepherd
Center, Seattle, WA ‐ March 12, 2009
• Library Camp NYC Brooklyn NY June 3 2009
Library Camp NYC, Brooklyn, NY ‐ June 3, 2009
• For more:
– http://liswiki.org/wiki/Library_Camp

Unconferences Interview
• Stephen Francoeur
• Information Services
Librarian at Baruch
College
• Key organizer of
LibraryCamp NYC
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http://www.archive.org/details/StephenFrancoeurInterview

New Web Initiatives
New Web Initiatives
“Web 2 0 is an attitude not a technology It’s
Web 2.0 is an attitude not a technology. It s
about enabling and encouraging participation
through open applications and services. By
through open applications and services By
open I mean technically open with appropriate
APIs but also, more importantly, socially open,
APIs but also more importantly socially open
with rights granted to use the content in new
and exciting contexts.
and exciting contexts ”
‐Ian Davis, CTO, Talis

Wikipedia
http://www.wikipedia.org

ArXiv API
http://export.arxiv.org/api_help

Open WorldCat
Open WorldCat
http://www.worldcat.org

Open Library
Open Library
http://openlibrary.org

Biblios.net
https://biblios.net

Open Data Commons
http://www.opendatacommons.org

MySpace Data Availability
MySpace Data Availability
• Announced May 2008
• Login with MySpace ID
Login with MySpace ID
• Import profile data
• Import Friends
• Share Content – photos,
videos, etc.
• Supports OpenID
Supports OpenID
• Partners:
• Twitter
• eBay
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• PhotoBucket
• Yahoo!
• Eventful
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http://tinyurl.com/5pnyu6 • Flixter

Open ID
Open ID
• Single digital identity
Single digital identity
• One login for multiple sites
• Yahoo!
• MySpace
• AOL
• WordPress
• 10,000 sites support it
10 000 sites support it
• Over 160 million OpenIDs
http://openid.net

Facebook Connect
• Announced May 2008
• Login with Facebook ID
• Share Friends
• Share Actions on Partner sites
• Partners
– Digg
– Six Apart
– CitySearch
– Hulu
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– ABC
– CBS
– Kongregate
– Loopt
– Plaxo
http://tinyurl.com/5m2fyr – Seesmic
– StumbleUpon
– Twitter
– Vimeo

Google FriendConnect
Google FriendConnect
• Announced May 2008
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• Enables any website with
social features
• Add a snippet of code and
choose functionality
• Works with open Web
standards such as
OpenID, OpenSocial, open
OpenID OpenSocial open
APIs from Facebook, etc.
http://www.google.com/friendconnect
http://www google com/friendconnect

Data Portability Project
Data Portability Project
• Promote the idea that
people should have
control over their data
• Promotes open standards
Promotes open standards
• Initiative to facilitate
interoperability between
interoperability between
social networks
• Partners
– MySpace
http://www.dataportability.org – Facebook
– Y h !
Yahoo!

Open Web Foundation
Open Web Foundation
• Formed July 2008
• Legalities of developing open
specifications for Web
technologies
• Supporters:
Supporters:
– BBC
– Facebook
– Google
– MySpace
– O'Reilly
– Plaxo
http://openwebfoundation.org
http://openwebfoundation org – Six Apart
– Sourceforge
– Vidoop
– Yahoo!

Facebook Developer’s Platform
Developer s Platform
• May 2007
• Open API
• Third‐Party applications
http://www.facebook.com/apps

Google s OpenSocial
Google’s OpenSocial
• November 2007
• Common Set of APIs
• Third Party Apps which will
work across multiple social
networks
• Partners:
• MySpace
• Yahoo!
• Bebo
• Six Apart
• LinkedIn
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial • Ning
• Orkut
• Salesforce
• Hi5
• Plaxo
• Friendster

GNU GPL
•General Public License
•The freedom to use the software for any
purpose.
•The freedom to change the software to suit
your needs.
•The freedom to share the software with
your friends and neighbors,.
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http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html •The freedom to share the changes you
make.

GFDL
• GNU Free Documentation
License
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• All authors, current and
previous must be attributed
• All edits and changes must be
All edits and changes must be
listed
• All derivative versions must be
licensed under GFDL
licensed under GFDL
• The full text of the the license
and previous copyright notices
must be included
• No DRM or other technical
restrictions may be applied
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html

• Started in 2001
• Founded by Lawrence
Lessig, Eric Saltzman, and
Lessig Eric Saltzman and
others
• Attempts to straddle the
gap between full copyright
gap between full copyright
and the public domain
• Many free licenses to
choose from
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http://creativecommons.org • June 2008 – 130 million
creative works licensed with
CC

Open Licenses Interview
Open Licenses Interview
• Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales
• Founder Wikipedia
http://www.archive.org/details/JimmyWalesInterview
http://www archive org/details/JimmyWalesInterview

Image Credits
Image Credits
• Slide 3: http://tinyurl.com/5kkapt
Slide 3: http://tinyurl com/5kkapt
• Slide 4: http://tinyurl.com/5ql3d9
• Slide 5: http://tinyurl.com/5s65ej
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• Slide 6: http://tinyurl.com/6hotej