Leveraging Web 2.0 and GIS Thom W. Cox Technical Project Manager Tisch Library Tufts University [email_address]

Tisch website re-launch – a major step forward How we’re leveraging Web 2.0 tools: success and challenges Using GIS to create a spatial information manager for the library

Tisch website re-launch – a major step forward

How we’re leveraging Web 2.0 tools: success and challenges

Using GIS to create a spatial information manager for the library

My how you’ve grown (since 2003) The Web has changed The User has changed

My how you’ve grown (since 2003)

The Web has changed

The User has changed

One full year of research: How have other universities met the challenge? What do we know about our users already? How do our users seek information? What can the library staff tell us? [ 1 ] [ 2 ] What do students think so far? What more can students tell us?

One full year of research:

How have other universities met the challenge?

What do we know about our users already?

How do our users seek information?

What can the library staff tell us? [ 1 ] [ 2 ]

What do students think so far?

What more can students tell us?

Provide direct access to our resources and content Increase awareness of resource availability Did You Know / Now@Tisch / Featured Resource on every page Preserve, and even improve readability, accessibility, “printablity”, usability of the site Tisch& You begins a drive to personalize the site

Provide direct access to our resources and content

Increase awareness of resource availability

Did You Know / Now@Tisch / Featured Resource on every page

Preserve, and even improve readability, accessibility, “printablity”, usability of the site

Tisch& You begins a drive to personalize the site

Podcasts JavaScript-enabled content rotation RSS syndication What’s next? LibGuides? ASP.NET/AJAX?

Podcasts

JavaScript-enabled content rotation

RSS syndication

What’s next? LibGuides? ASP.NET/AJAX?

for orienting students to the library and to library research an annual poetry reading episode interviews with distinguished Tufts alumni authors Video tour of the music library panel discussion with four Tufts faculty members on how to write a senior honors thesis

for orienting students to the library and to library research

an annual poetry reading episode

interviews with distinguished Tufts alumni authors

Video tour of the music library

panel discussion with four Tufts faculty members on how to write a senior honors thesis

Challenge: get usage stats on podcasts: Web stats from an RSS feed? WebTrends? Google Analytics? awstats?

Challenge: get usage stats on podcasts:

Web stats from an RSS feed?

WebTrends? Google Analytics? awstats?

Challenge – convert online library instruction tutorials into video podcasts http://www.adobe.com/devnet/captivate/articles/ipod.html http://www.sothink.com/product/swftovideoconverter/ Fine, but does it look ok on the iPhone?

Challenge – convert online library instruction tutorials into video podcasts

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/captivate/articles/ipod.html

http://www.sothink.com/product/swftovideoconverter/

Fine, but does it look ok on the iPhone?

Export from Captivate at highest quality Convert to AVI format in SWF Converter: Then use a professional video conversion program like Sorenson Squeeze to convert to MPEG-4 format and reduce to an iPhone/iPod compatible screen size

Export from Captivate at highest quality

Convert to AVI format in SWF Converter:

Challenge: make our content available as RSS feeds Blog host of content itself JavaScript solutions ASP.NET/AJAX

Challenge: make our content available as RSS feeds

Blog host of content itself

JavaScript solutions

ASP.NET/AJAX

The Spatial Information Manager for the Library

The Spatial Information Manager for the Library

The challenge of managing space Library or Labyrinth? A perfect model for GIS-based spatial information management

The challenge of managing space

Library or Labyrinth?

A perfect model for GIS-based spatial information management

metadata, metadata, metadata L-SIMS : a database of geo-encoded uniquely identified objects - floors, rooms, stacks, computers, wireless access points, fire extinguishers, etc., that can be queried and used to generate high quality maps for a variety of purposes.

metadata, metadata, metadata

L-SIMS : a database of geo-encoded uniquely identified objects - floors, rooms, stacks, computers, wireless access points, fire extinguishers, etc., that can be queried and used to generate high quality maps for a variety of purposes.

GIS is a system of computer software, hardware, data and personnel to help store, manipulate, analyze, and present information that is tied to a spatial location.

facilitate the analysis and optimization of existing space within the Tisch Library serve as a real-time high-quality map generator provide access to the square footage of any room in the library assist reference librarians in their efforts to direct students to resources in the library be a searchable query engine showing what software exists on the computers in the library a critical component of disaster planning

facilitate the analysis and optimization of existing space within the Tisch Library

serve as a real-time high-quality map generator

provide access to the square footage of any room in the library

assist reference librarians in their efforts to direct students to resources in the library

be a searchable query engine showing what software exists on the computers in the library

a critical component of disaster planning

Brainstorming and forming a team Tufts University Berger Family Technology Transfer Endowment Needs Assessment Stakeholder Meetings

Brainstorming and forming a team

Tufts University Berger Family Technology Transfer Endowment

Needs Assessment

Stakeholder Meetings

L-SIMS Design and Data Integration

L-SIMS Design and Data Integration

Facilities Floor Plans L-SIMS

Rooms Room number Room name Room use Square footage Dept. occupant Quiet space Infrastructure Walls Doorways Columns Doors Stairwells Service Centers Reserves, Circulation, etc. Collections Range number Beg. call number End call number Collection type Shelving type Emergency Fire alarms Fire extinguishers Emergency exits Panic buttons LITS Computers Photocopiers Printers Scanners

Rooms

Room number

Room name

Room use

Square footage

Dept. occupant

Quiet space

Infrastructure

Walls

Doorways

Columns

Doors

Stairwells

Service Centers

Reserves, Circulation, etc.

Collections

Range number

Beg. call number

End call number

Collection type

Shelving type

Emergency

Fire alarms

Fire extinguishers

Emergency exits

Panic buttons

LITS

Computers

Photocopiers

Printers

Scanners

QA/QC Education

QA/QC

Education

Call number locator; Retrieve location of book Query Office space < 200 sq. ft. Staff computers that have a DVD player Public computers that have Excel Analytical

Call number locator; Retrieve location of book

Query

Office space < 200 sq. ft.

Staff computers that have a DVD player

Public computers that have Excel

Analytical

Buffer fire extinguishers 75 feet Through overlay identify stacks NOT within 75 feet of an extinguisher

Buffer fire extinguishers 75 feet

Through overlay identify stacks NOT within 75 feet of an extinguisher

High-quality maps for the Tisch website

High-quality maps for the Tisch website

GIS Web Application

GIS Web Application

Questions and Answers Thom W. Cox Technical Project Manager Tisch Library Tufts University [email_address]

Questions and Answers