Books In A Web 2

Books in a web 2.0 environment Marianne van der Heijden Library and Information Services

Introduction

- books

vs

- web 2.0

Books and web 2.0

web 2.0 ways to receive information on books

web 2.0 ways to find and share lists of books

web 2.0 ways to manage the books you use

Definition

Web 2.0 is a term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity , information sharing, and collaboration among users

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

O’Reilly in 2005

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

Web 2.0 examples

Profile sites

Facebook / Hyves / LinkedIn

Social bookmarking

del.icio.us / Netvibes

Video/Photo sharing

Flickr / YouTube

Blogosphere

Blogger / Twitter

Web 2.0 examples cont.

Sharing news / RSS / Comments

Digg / Google reader / Bloglines

Corporate knowledge / Wiki

Wikipedia / open science wiki

Webparts technology / Widgets /Ajax

Google Gadgets / mini ajax /

Collaboratories / communities

Surfgroepen / Ning / Basecamp

and

What is it about?

It is about interaction:

Web 1.0: an application can be used, one-sided, no user influence.

Web 2.0: an application to be used, commented, tagged, discussed, multisided, user influence to user generated content.

What is in it for you?

“ Horizontal knowledge is communication among individuals, who may or may not know each other, but who are loosely coordinated by their involvement with something, or someone, of mutual interest. And it’s extremely powerful, because it makes people much smarter.”

Prof. Glenn Reynolds An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths (Nelson Current, 2006)

Book

book Pronunciation [boo k]

– noun 1.a written or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.

With 50 more definitions

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/book

Books and the law

Copyright laws state that it is not allowed to copy text from a book and use it as you own.

To prevent plagiarism

To prevent the resell of illegal reprints

Digitisation and web 2.0

Start with digitising books

Not web 2.0 in itself.

Let us compare

Same

Numerical Ecology /Pierre and Louis Legendre

2 paper copies in Library Catalogue

In ScienceDirect under title of bookseries

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=PublicationURL&_tockey=%23TOC%2341863%231998%23999799999%23655311%23FLP%23&_cdi=41863&_pubType=BS&_auth=y&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=521929&md5=5f21ddfce7651bc9f9040e81610a0698

Extended

On paper Second edition

4 Vols, different essays

On Springer Link

Third Edition

7 Vols, extended essays,

Modified and unmodified

http://www.springerlink.com/content/g891884v917k4gnw/?p=ef0d1c9b820a4a3da7054e3b0a86d7e1&pi=2

Additional material

Ecology : From Individuals to Ecosystems M. Begon, C. R. Townsend and J. L. Harper. 2006.

Online tables, http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/begon /

Digitisation Projects

Making a digital copy of originally printed books

Culture heritage projects (europeanea)

Project Gutenberg (copyright free classical books)

Project Gutenberg

Online vs. print books

online books can be multi user and used simultaneously

online books are easier to use per chapter as a pdf, and thus managed.

publication form is mainly same

Popular digitization projects

Google Books

Microsoft Books

Scan the book, make text inside the book searchable, show a little of the book

Within copyright restrictions

Web 2.0 applications for books

open to comment: real online publication

weblog

Wiki: sharing and collaborating in writing and publishing

web based knowledge system

publication wheel?

Wiki as publication format

WikiGenes is the first wiki system to combine the collaborative and largely altruistic possibilities of wikis with explicit authorship.

FROM : A wiki for the life sciences where Authorship matters by Robert Hoffmann 1 Nature Genetics 40, 1047 - 1051 (2008)

WikiGenes

Chromedia

Publishing on demand (POD)

= print on demand

= digital publishing

Used for:

Self-publishing

Reprinting classics

Faber Finds

E-book store

Find books

In a library catalogue

RSS feed on the new additions to that catalogue

NIOO catalogue

Worldcat (joint catalogue of the world's libraries

also via Amazon/Bol (or other bookshops)

NIOO Library Catalogue

Change view to Library Catalog

Add comments (e.g. for loan request)

Subscribe to RSS

Worldcat

In Worldcat you can register

Make lists and share them with others

Add comments and tags

How to find them

only the metadata:you search for Title, author or subject

then comes Google

Google Book Search is based on the full text of a book

Google Book Search

Ecological Genomics

About this book

Preview of this book

Selected pages

Content

Popular passages

Search in this book

References from webpages

References from scholarly works

Key terms

Link to bookshop to buy the book

Link to library to borrow the book

Locate the book

Metadata found =/= book found

Copyright leads to DRM-restrictions

digitised books, most are not freely available

Read Books

print media: on loan from library, ill, or exchange

online books – pdf’s via subscription, free access (Gutenberg)

Download pdf’s and read them off line on pc or on e-book readers - pdf

Reading Online

As pdf’s

In special reading format (flash)

Science disseminating using Open Access

Bout Psalter

Reading in a web 2.0 way

Reading = passive action

Comments in the margin of a print book

In catalogues you may now add your own tags and comments to certain books.

Sharing and commenting

a kind of social bookmark sites like Connotea and 2Collab to share your literature with others

Connotea is a service from the Nature Publishing group

2Collab is an Elsevier product

2Collab

Bookmark sites

Add bookmarks with a browser button

Examples:

Delicious

Connotea

2Collab

Netvibes

Connotea

Reading Devices

Cybook

iLIAD

E-bookreaders

Using the new technology of e-ink , they are an effort to make reading paperless.

On these e-book readers you can load pdf's, and e-books in Mobipocket format.

You can put numerous e-books on it, and use more space with card extensions

The e-book readers can be loaned for testing upon request.

Reading help

DailyLIT: receive a daily e-mail with your daily book pages to read

Manage Books

Catalogue your own books

Manage your pdf’s

Manage your literature links

Your own Library Catalogue

Keep a library of your own in LibraryThing

You can search your books and add them to your LibraryThing Catalogue

You can join a group, for instance the NIOO-Knaw group and see what others have in their library

LibraryThing

Add books

Search for books in several databases like Amazon, KB, Library of Congress

Click to add the description to your library in LibraryThing

Make friends, join a group

Place your library widget on your blog

Infoserver

Manage PDF’s

PDF’s as links can be managed by any bookmark programm

Not all pdf’s are available from all locations

PDF management with Endnote X

See Endnote X presentation on Slideshare

PDF management

Drag and drop the PDF file into the library window into the column with the PDF logo

Future of books

The Economist: The future of books: Now that books are digitised how will people read? Daniel Pudles 22nd March 2007

“ So books that people would not traditionally read in their entirety, or that require frequent updating, are likely to migrate online and perhaps to cease being books at all”.

Amsterdam World Book Capital

Sept 18: IPA Freedom to Publish Prize

Conference Oct 13, 2008

Challenging the book in sholarship and

higher education: dodo or dog?

Will the book in academic and higher education adapt itself to the digital era as the wolf evolved into the dog or will it vanish as the dodo did because the bird could not fly, ended as soup meat and extincted?

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