More details: http://maisonbisson.com/post/11615/my-boston-library-consortium-presentation/ What’s the connection between remixability and shortening the distance between question and answer? Easy: we build the systems, but they’re only relevant when they help answer questions, and none of us is so foolish as to think we can anticipate all the questions that might be asked of our systems. Remixability opens our systems to those unforeseen questions and new ways of asking those questions.

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BLC Annual Meeting
April 12, 2007

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Query:
Sociology of Education

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LCSH:
Educational Sociology

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Numbers
• Over 200 million Americans have internet access
(source: Internet World Stats and Nielsen/NetRatings)
• 94 million Americans use the internet
on an average day
(source: November 2005 Pew Internet Project report)
• 80% of US internet users believe the internet
is a reliable source of information
(source: November 2004 Pew Internet Project commentary)

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Vs. Search Engines
Source: OCLC Report 2005

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Q A

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}Q A
distance

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Challenges
• Usability
• Findability
• Remixability

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Facets? Facets!

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Facets? Facets!

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Facets? Facets!

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Facets? Facets!

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Facets? Facets!

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“Bagged Products”

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Search Engine: 89%
Where does research begin?
Source: OCLC Report 2005

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Don’t tell anyone!
This isn’t what we’re
supposed to be
working on.
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HTTP
HTML
first web browser
first web server

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application
& business logic
database
Old World

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application
& business logic
database
Old World
database
+
application
+
business logic
all mixed up

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databaseapplication
business logic
API

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databaseapplication
business logic
API
Remixable Model

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Questions?
Extend the discussion:
casey@scriblio.net
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