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Making Sense offor Libraries?
                   What Next the Future
                          Making Sense of the Future

                           Reflections on the past &
                           thoughts on the future




    What Next for Libraries?
    Making Sense of the Future
    Talk by Brian Kelly, UKOLN at the EMTACL 2012 conference
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                                                   EMTACL12

               What Next for Libraries?
              Making Sense of the Future
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About Me
    Brian Kelly
        • Based at UKOLN, University of Bath
        • Involved in Web development since 1993
        • Excited about the potential of the Web to support
          University activities
        • Realistic about the challenges!

    The Innovation Support Centre (ISC) at UKOLN
       • Funded by the JISC
       • Supports innovation in higher & further education
       • Providing the JISC Observatory in conjunction
         with JISC CETIS

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About This Talk
    This talk:
       • Reviews the future by looking at the past
       • Distinguishes between invention, innovation and
         improvement
       • Highlights importance of evidence-gathering in
         identifying relevant areas of innovation & ways of
         making improvements
       • Describes work funded by JISC in UK
       • Outlines a methodology which others can adopt
       • Welcomes feedback during talk using Twitter
         #emtacl12


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Accompanying Paper

    View paper at:
    http://bitly.com/emtacl12-kelly


    Available in PDF – MS Word
    formats from University of
    Bath repository.

    CC-BY licence.




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#emtacl12 and
                                  Your Thoughts                       #future or #wtf


                                  What technical developments might be important?
    Making sense of the future!




                                                                       Tweet your
                                                                       ideas

                                                                      Feel free to add
                                                                      implications for
                                                                      users …
                                                                      and implications
                                                                      for libraries

                                                                      Discuss the
                                                                      implications …
                                                                      such as legal
                                                                      issues, business
6                                                                     models, …
The Future from the Past
                       Monorail, Incorporated built a short test
                       track of their suspended system at
                       Arrowhead Park in Houston, Texas. Each
                       bogie was powered by a 310-horsepower
                       Packard automobile engine. The driver
                       was seated high above the passenger
                       carriage on one of the two bogies. After
                       eight months of testing, the track was
                       dismantled and rebuilt at the Texas State
                       fairgrounds where it ran for many years. Its
                       promoters claimed it could reach speeds of
                       160 km but no Skyway transit installations
                       were ever built.




    The future was exciting in 1956!
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What I Expected in the Future
    Monorails




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“Eagle has Landed”


Awoken at 3 am on 16 June
1969 to watch lunar landing
on black and white TV.

But the future was exciting!




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The Future from the Past
     1969 was exciting!




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What I Expected in the Future
     The future is exciting!




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The Present: Better than Predicted

     Star Trek‟s predicted mobile phones
     but not smart phones!




                          Nokia 8110 “stole the
                          show in 1998”
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Has the Future Arrived?
     Mobile phones




13
The Future from the Past




     The future is exciting!
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Has the Future Arrived?
     Hoverpacks do exist




15
Has the Future Arrived?
     Landing on Mars




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Has the Future Arrived?
     Monorails




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Has the Future Arrived?
         Monorail




 Please note that the
 monorails listed in these
 pages are MULTI-STATION
 systems. We do not include
 the dozens of recreation or
 view-giving minirails
 here. Our efforts are
 primarily geared towards
 proving monorail's ability
 to carry people from point
 to point as TRANSIT.
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Has the Future Arrived?
     Predictions & expectations from the past:
        • Have arrived
        • Sometimes have exceed expectations
        • Often fail to become widely embedded

     Can we learn from past expectations of the future?

     Note importance of evidence:
       “Our efforts are primarily geared towards proving
       monorail's ability to carry people from point to
       point as TRANSIT”



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Rich Opportunities
                     Web 2.0
                     provided
                     many
                     opportunities
                     to support
                     teaching &
                     learning and
                     research
                     activities




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Optimism




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The Mid 2000s




                     Even the Daily Telegraph
                     in 2006 gave a (qualified)
                     conclusion of “Good” to
                     Labour Government‟s
                     investment in education


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From the Sea of Tranquility to
     the Perfect Storm
        Stormy times




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Time of Growth 
     1990s & early 2000s saw:
        • Increased funding across
          education sector
        • Significant developments
          in IT sector
        • Willingness by senior
          managers & funding
          bodies to invest in
          innovative IT
          developments (e.g. JISC
          development
          programmes)

                                                                   “Great proposal – we’ll fund it”
     Image from Flickr. CC BT-NC-SA licence:
24   http://www.flickr.com/photos/inlinguamanchester/5036313154/
Time of Growth is Over 
     Late 2000s and beyond:
        • Decreased funding across
          education & public sector
        • Acknowledgements that
          innovation can provide
          growth and cost savings
        • Significant developments
          continue in IT sector
        • Investment in innovative IT
          developments need to be
          based on evidence of
          benefits & likleyhood of
          success                                         “You want how much? And no
     Image from Flickr. CC BY-NC-ND licence:
                                                           evidence it will work! You’re
25   http://www.flickr.com/photos/drewleavy/339489258//    crazy!”
Innovation




     Invention:     Creating something new
     Innovation:    Using something new
     Improvement:   Using something that exists
                    in a better way

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The Context



     In the future mobiles will be smaller & faster;
     Data will be Big and content and services will be
     open. Lots of opportunities for librarians 




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JISC Observatory


     JISC Observatory:
       • JISC-funded initiative
       • Systematises processes for anticipating and
         responding to projected future trends & scenarios
       • Provided by JISC Innovation Support Centres at
         UKOLN and CETIS
       • See <http://blog.observatory.jisc.ac.uk/>




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JIS Observatory process
     JIS Observatory process




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Scanning Activities
     Scanning developments:
      • Observatron list:
        Sharing snippets we
        encounter in our daily
        monitoring activities

                                 • Interviews:
                                   Short interviews with
                                   developers, practitioners,
                                   … who share their
                                   thoughts on how
                                   developments may affect
                                   their working practices

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Scanning Activities
     • Blog posts:
       Posts published on JISC Observatory
       blog and on existing blogs.
     • Monitoring trends:
       Monitoring trends in order to:
          Benchmark current usage patterns
          Identify trends
          Identify emerging patterns of usage



                            Google searches for “learning analytics”
                            took off in 2010.
                            Possible indicator of relevance across
                            sector & need for further investigation.
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A known unknown          A known known
         Apple to           The bankers
       successfully         mess up the
      sue Samsung            economy
           Scepticism




     An unknown unknown
            xxx to
         unexpectedly
             yyy!
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Zombie Attack
                     Note difficulties in:
                      • Identifying unknown
                        unknowns
                      • Developing
                        appropriate plans!




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Sense-making
     Need to:
      • Understand limitations of evidence-gathering
        techniques (including documenting „paradata‟ so
        survey findings are reproducible & can be critiqued)
      • Provide suggestions of implications of developments
        for the sector
     In addition need to encourage feedback on:
       • Evidence-gathering techniques
       • Interpretation of findings
                                        Make sense of my
       • Implications of developments   talk in realtime: tweet if
                                        you agree, but
     In order to inform:
                                        especially if you don‟t!
       • Further investigation
34     • Policy-making, planning and funding
Significant Trends: Mobile
                            Tecmark Digital Marketing Agency




     We now know of the
     importance of Mobile




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Significant Trends: Mobile
                                    Cisco




                      We now know of the
                      importance of Mobile

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Significant Trends: Mobile
                                   Opera




     We now know of the importance of Mobile: but
     did we say the same when WAP came along?
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Significant Trends: Social Media




     There were “more than 150 million Tweets about the
     Olympics over the past 16 days”. [Twitter blog]
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Significant Trends: Social Media




     Survey in Aug 2012 of institutional use of Twitter across
     24 Russell Group universities found >320K followers
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Significant Trends: Social Media




     Survey in Aug 2012 of institutional use of Facebook across the
     24 Russell Group universities found >1M „Likes‟ followers

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Behind The Facebook Page
     Trends in Fb „Likes‟ for Russell
     group Unis since Jan 2011 show
     steady increase
     But note increase in Jul 2012 due
     to addition of 4 new universities!
                                             Jan 11 Sep 11 May 12   Jul 12




                              But might trends hide a more
                              complex story:
                                • Usage & growth dominated
                                  by one significant player.
                                • More modest usage
                                  generally
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Need for Paradata and Discussion



     Surveys carried out to monitor usage & trends for:
      • Institutional use of social media
      • Use of researcher profiling services (e.g. Google
        Scholar, Academia.edu, …) across institutions
     Observations (and feedback):
      • Differing results found if quotes used
      • Possible inclusion of wrong Unis (e.g. Newcastle
        University, Australia)
      • Personalised results depending on client environment
     Need to provide paradata and encourage feedback
42   on processes and intrepretation of findings
Paradata Example
                   Dates of survey


            An example of paradata for a blog post on use
            of Blekko for an SEO analysis of Russell
            Group Universities




     Summary of unexpected findings   Limitations of survey methodology


                                         People in host institution can
                                         provide contextual knowledge if
                                         open approaches used
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Sense-Making: Social Media
     Social media:
      • Is about nodes and connections
      • Numbers do matter for effective
        engagement and disseminations
      • Experiences from other areas:
           Nos. of mobile phones
           Importance of email
           “All bugs are shallow to many eyes”
     Implications:
       • Importance of best practices for popular & well-
         used channels
       • Difficulties for new entrants e.g. Diaspora (open
         alternative to Facebook) and identi.ca and app.net
44       (new open alternative to Twitter)
Open Data
     “Is London 2012 a
     haven for open
     data?”
     Conclusions:
      • “Not this time”
      • “But it is the first
        data Olympics”
      • “It's hard to see that
        by [Rio] 2016 this
        won't emerge as
        data we can all
        use”


45
Open Data
     “Manchester City to
     open the archive on
     player data and
     statistics”
     Example of:
      • Public interest in
        open data
      • Interest from
        commercial sector




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Use of Open Data in Libraries
                                      Trends in reusing Library usage data,
                                      e.g. JISC‟s Library Impact Data Project




     Average number of books borrowed and e-resource        Image & data provided by
                                                            Dave Pattern under a CC
     logins for ~33,000 students in final year of studies   BY-NC-SA licence




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Innovating or Improving?
     How should we enhance the visibility of
     research papers?
          • Search tools “better than Google”
          • Richer metadata?
          • Exploit potential of Linked Data?
     Or
          • Make more effective use of existing
            infrastructure?




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Evidence of IR Usage
     Evidence suggests:
         • 50-80% of traffic arrives via Google
         • Some traffic may not be recorded (direct links to PDFs)

     SEO analysis of 24 Russell Group Universities




                                             Importance of externally-
                                             hosted blog platforms!




     Importance of blog
49   platforms, Wikipedia & media
Implications
                Implications of findings:
                 • Innovation is important
                But:
                 • We shouldn‟t ignore potential
                   of implementing best practices
                   on existing systems
                Remember:
                 • Today‟s mainstream service
                   was yesterday‟s innovation
                 • No guarantee that best
                   practices for innovative
                   systems will be implemented

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TechWatch Reports
                                    JISC Observatory
                                    TechWatch reports on
                                    key areas of growth &
                                    importance:
                                     • Data
                                     • eBooks
                                     • Mobile Web
                                     • Augmented Reality




      But what other early signals are we seeing?

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Early Signals?
     News stories (Aug
     2012) about plans for
     privatisation at
     London Metropolitan
     University




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Early Signals?
     Follow-up comment
     (20 Aug 2012):
     “VC should be
     applauded for the
     classic business
     move of getting the
     university to
     concentrate on its
     core activity”



     Carl Lygo is chief executive
     of the 'for profit' BPP
     Professional Education group
     and principal of BPP
     University College
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Challenge For Librarians
                   In time of uncertainties:
                    • Take an evidence-based
                      approach to
                      understanding the future
                    • Understand the changed
                      environment
                    • Engage with opportunities
                      in areas of growth and
                      institutional importance
                    • Be open and encourage
                      discussion on analysis &
                      interpretation of findings

54
Exploiting Opportunities: Data

                                      Opportunities
                                      for (academic)
                                      librarians to
                                      engage in data
                                      management
                                      activities




55
Exploiting Opportunities: Data




     Opportunities for Librarians in engaging with research
56
     data management – see IFLA paper PDF
Warning From The Past

       Gopher




                    Tim Berners-Lee
                    didn‟t accept the
                    evidence of the
                    popularity of Gopher!
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Serenity prayer

         Serenity prayer:
         God, grant me the
         serenity to accept
         the things I cannot
         change,
         Courage to change
         the things I can,
         And wisdom to know
         the difference.



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Conclusions


     The Data will be Big, but our users will continue to use
     Facebook and Twitter
     But research data will grow in importance as will use of
     mobiles.
     According to the evidence the future isn‟t quite what I
     expected. But it has helped to identify our business
     strategies.




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Continue the Conversation

     See http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/




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What Next for Libraries? Making Sense of the Future

  • 1. Making Sense offor Libraries? What Next the Future Making Sense of the Future Reflections on the past & thoughts on the future What Next for Libraries? Making Sense of the Future Talk by Brian Kelly, UKOLN at the EMTACL 2012 conference 1
  • 2. Twitter: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/emtacl-2012/ #emtacl12 EMTACL12 What Next for Libraries? Making Sense of the Future Brian Kelly Acceptable Use Policy UKOLN Recording this talk, taking photos, University of Bath discussing the content using Twitter, Bath, UK blogs, etc. is welcomed providing distractions to others is minimised. Email: b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk Blog: http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/ Twitter: @briankelly UKOLN is supported by: This work is licensed under a A centre of expertise in digital information management Creativewww.ukoln.ac.uk 2.0 Commons Attribution licence (but note caveat)
  • 3. About Me Brian Kelly • Based at UKOLN, University of Bath • Involved in Web development since 1993 • Excited about the potential of the Web to support University activities • Realistic about the challenges! The Innovation Support Centre (ISC) at UKOLN • Funded by the JISC • Supports innovation in higher & further education • Providing the JISC Observatory in conjunction with JISC CETIS 3
  • 4. About This Talk This talk: • Reviews the future by looking at the past • Distinguishes between invention, innovation and improvement • Highlights importance of evidence-gathering in identifying relevant areas of innovation & ways of making improvements • Describes work funded by JISC in UK • Outlines a methodology which others can adopt • Welcomes feedback during talk using Twitter #emtacl12 4
  • 5. Accompanying Paper View paper at: http://bitly.com/emtacl12-kelly Available in PDF – MS Word formats from University of Bath repository. CC-BY licence. 5
  • 6. #emtacl12 and Your Thoughts #future or #wtf What technical developments might be important? Making sense of the future! Tweet your ideas Feel free to add implications for users … and implications for libraries Discuss the implications … such as legal issues, business 6 models, …
  • 7. The Future from the Past Monorail, Incorporated built a short test track of their suspended system at Arrowhead Park in Houston, Texas. Each bogie was powered by a 310-horsepower Packard automobile engine. The driver was seated high above the passenger carriage on one of the two bogies. After eight months of testing, the track was dismantled and rebuilt at the Texas State fairgrounds where it ran for many years. Its promoters claimed it could reach speeds of 160 km but no Skyway transit installations were ever built. The future was exciting in 1956! 7
  • 8. What I Expected in the Future Monorails 8
  • 9. “Eagle has Landed” Awoken at 3 am on 16 June 1969 to watch lunar landing on black and white TV. But the future was exciting! 9
  • 10. The Future from the Past 1969 was exciting! 10
  • 11. What I Expected in the Future The future is exciting! 11
  • 12. The Present: Better than Predicted Star Trek‟s predicted mobile phones but not smart phones! Nokia 8110 “stole the show in 1998” 12
  • 13. Has the Future Arrived? Mobile phones 13
  • 14. The Future from the Past The future is exciting! 14
  • 15. Has the Future Arrived? Hoverpacks do exist 15
  • 16. Has the Future Arrived? Landing on Mars 16
  • 17. Has the Future Arrived? Monorails 17
  • 18. Has the Future Arrived? Monorail Please note that the monorails listed in these pages are MULTI-STATION systems. We do not include the dozens of recreation or view-giving minirails here. Our efforts are primarily geared towards proving monorail's ability to carry people from point to point as TRANSIT. 18
  • 19. Has the Future Arrived? Predictions & expectations from the past: • Have arrived • Sometimes have exceed expectations • Often fail to become widely embedded Can we learn from past expectations of the future? Note importance of evidence: “Our efforts are primarily geared towards proving monorail's ability to carry people from point to point as TRANSIT” 19
  • 20. Rich Opportunities Web 2.0 provided many opportunities to support teaching & learning and research activities 20
  • 22. The Mid 2000s Even the Daily Telegraph in 2006 gave a (qualified) conclusion of “Good” to Labour Government‟s investment in education 22
  • 23. From the Sea of Tranquility to the Perfect Storm Stormy times 23
  • 24. Time of Growth  1990s & early 2000s saw: • Increased funding across education sector • Significant developments in IT sector • Willingness by senior managers & funding bodies to invest in innovative IT developments (e.g. JISC development programmes) “Great proposal – we’ll fund it” Image from Flickr. CC BT-NC-SA licence: 24 http://www.flickr.com/photos/inlinguamanchester/5036313154/
  • 25. Time of Growth is Over  Late 2000s and beyond: • Decreased funding across education & public sector • Acknowledgements that innovation can provide growth and cost savings • Significant developments continue in IT sector • Investment in innovative IT developments need to be based on evidence of benefits & likleyhood of success “You want how much? And no Image from Flickr. CC BY-NC-ND licence: evidence it will work! You’re 25 http://www.flickr.com/photos/drewleavy/339489258// crazy!”
  • 26. Innovation Invention: Creating something new Innovation: Using something new Improvement: Using something that exists in a better way 26
  • 27. The Context In the future mobiles will be smaller & faster; Data will be Big and content and services will be open. Lots of opportunities for librarians  27
  • 28. JISC Observatory JISC Observatory: • JISC-funded initiative • Systematises processes for anticipating and responding to projected future trends & scenarios • Provided by JISC Innovation Support Centres at UKOLN and CETIS • See <http://blog.observatory.jisc.ac.uk/> 28
  • 29. JIS Observatory process JIS Observatory process 29
  • 30. Scanning Activities Scanning developments: • Observatron list: Sharing snippets we encounter in our daily monitoring activities • Interviews: Short interviews with developers, practitioners, … who share their thoughts on how developments may affect their working practices 30
  • 31. Scanning Activities • Blog posts: Posts published on JISC Observatory blog and on existing blogs. • Monitoring trends: Monitoring trends in order to:  Benchmark current usage patterns  Identify trends  Identify emerging patterns of usage Google searches for “learning analytics” took off in 2010. Possible indicator of relevance across sector & need for further investigation. 31
  • 32. A known unknown A known known Apple to The bankers successfully mess up the sue Samsung economy Scepticism An unknown unknown xxx to unexpectedly yyy! 32
  • 33. Zombie Attack Note difficulties in: • Identifying unknown unknowns • Developing appropriate plans! 33
  • 34. Sense-making Need to: • Understand limitations of evidence-gathering techniques (including documenting „paradata‟ so survey findings are reproducible & can be critiqued) • Provide suggestions of implications of developments for the sector In addition need to encourage feedback on: • Evidence-gathering techniques • Interpretation of findings Make sense of my • Implications of developments talk in realtime: tweet if you agree, but In order to inform: especially if you don‟t! • Further investigation 34 • Policy-making, planning and funding
  • 35. Significant Trends: Mobile Tecmark Digital Marketing Agency We now know of the importance of Mobile 35
  • 36. Significant Trends: Mobile Cisco We now know of the importance of Mobile 36
  • 37. Significant Trends: Mobile Opera We now know of the importance of Mobile: but did we say the same when WAP came along? 37
  • 38. Significant Trends: Social Media There were “more than 150 million Tweets about the Olympics over the past 16 days”. [Twitter blog] 38
  • 39. Significant Trends: Social Media Survey in Aug 2012 of institutional use of Twitter across 24 Russell Group universities found >320K followers 39
  • 40. Significant Trends: Social Media Survey in Aug 2012 of institutional use of Facebook across the 24 Russell Group universities found >1M „Likes‟ followers 40
  • 41. Behind The Facebook Page Trends in Fb „Likes‟ for Russell group Unis since Jan 2011 show steady increase But note increase in Jul 2012 due to addition of 4 new universities! Jan 11 Sep 11 May 12 Jul 12 But might trends hide a more complex story: • Usage & growth dominated by one significant player. • More modest usage generally 41
  • 42. Need for Paradata and Discussion Surveys carried out to monitor usage & trends for: • Institutional use of social media • Use of researcher profiling services (e.g. Google Scholar, Academia.edu, …) across institutions Observations (and feedback): • Differing results found if quotes used • Possible inclusion of wrong Unis (e.g. Newcastle University, Australia) • Personalised results depending on client environment Need to provide paradata and encourage feedback 42 on processes and intrepretation of findings
  • 43. Paradata Example Dates of survey An example of paradata for a blog post on use of Blekko for an SEO analysis of Russell Group Universities Summary of unexpected findings Limitations of survey methodology People in host institution can provide contextual knowledge if open approaches used 43
  • 44. Sense-Making: Social Media Social media: • Is about nodes and connections • Numbers do matter for effective engagement and disseminations • Experiences from other areas:  Nos. of mobile phones  Importance of email  “All bugs are shallow to many eyes” Implications: • Importance of best practices for popular & well- used channels • Difficulties for new entrants e.g. Diaspora (open alternative to Facebook) and identi.ca and app.net 44 (new open alternative to Twitter)
  • 45. Open Data “Is London 2012 a haven for open data?” Conclusions: • “Not this time” • “But it is the first data Olympics” • “It's hard to see that by [Rio] 2016 this won't emerge as data we can all use” 45
  • 46. Open Data “Manchester City to open the archive on player data and statistics” Example of: • Public interest in open data • Interest from commercial sector 46
  • 47. Use of Open Data in Libraries Trends in reusing Library usage data, e.g. JISC‟s Library Impact Data Project Average number of books borrowed and e-resource Image & data provided by Dave Pattern under a CC logins for ~33,000 students in final year of studies BY-NC-SA licence 47
  • 48. Innovating or Improving? How should we enhance the visibility of research papers? • Search tools “better than Google” • Richer metadata? • Exploit potential of Linked Data? Or • Make more effective use of existing infrastructure? 48
  • 49. Evidence of IR Usage Evidence suggests: • 50-80% of traffic arrives via Google • Some traffic may not be recorded (direct links to PDFs) SEO analysis of 24 Russell Group Universities Importance of externally- hosted blog platforms! Importance of blog 49 platforms, Wikipedia & media
  • 50. Implications Implications of findings: • Innovation is important But: • We shouldn‟t ignore potential of implementing best practices on existing systems Remember: • Today‟s mainstream service was yesterday‟s innovation • No guarantee that best practices for innovative systems will be implemented 50
  • 51. TechWatch Reports JISC Observatory TechWatch reports on key areas of growth & importance: • Data • eBooks • Mobile Web • Augmented Reality But what other early signals are we seeing? 51
  • 52. Early Signals? News stories (Aug 2012) about plans for privatisation at London Metropolitan University 52
  • 53. Early Signals? Follow-up comment (20 Aug 2012): “VC should be applauded for the classic business move of getting the university to concentrate on its core activity” Carl Lygo is chief executive of the 'for profit' BPP Professional Education group and principal of BPP University College 53
  • 54. Challenge For Librarians In time of uncertainties: • Take an evidence-based approach to understanding the future • Understand the changed environment • Engage with opportunities in areas of growth and institutional importance • Be open and encourage discussion on analysis & interpretation of findings 54
  • 55. Exploiting Opportunities: Data Opportunities for (academic) librarians to engage in data management activities 55
  • 56. Exploiting Opportunities: Data Opportunities for Librarians in engaging with research 56 data management – see IFLA paper PDF
  • 57. Warning From The Past Gopher Tim Berners-Lee didn‟t accept the evidence of the popularity of Gopher! 57
  • 58. Serenity prayer Serenity prayer: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference. 58
  • 59. Conclusions The Data will be Big, but our users will continue to use Facebook and Twitter But research data will grow in importance as will use of mobiles. According to the evidence the future isn‟t quite what I expected. But it has helped to identify our business strategies. 59
  • 60. Continue the Conversation See http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/ 60

Editor's Notes

  1. We should be happy. The future has arrived.And we were happy – until a few years ago!