Mashing libraries to build communities
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Presentation given at Internet Librarian International 2010 (ILI2010)
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For me - creativity meets technology. While I think it is arguable that technology is not an essential part of this, I believe it is the ease with which digital content can be repurposed
latter not essential but enables?
Probably earliest ‘mashups’ were musical (term coined around 2001 as far as I can tell) - the Grey Album being a high profile example (2004) - remixing JayZee’s Black Album with samples from the Beatles White Album.
With the increasing availability of video in digital form, as well as ways to share the results easily (i.e. YouTube), video mashups also became common
However the mashups I’ll be talking about today mashup not music or video, but information
Google Maps has clearly led the way here, but with the Ordnance Survey opening up their data, this opens new opportunities in the UK
Google Maps has clearly led the way here, but with the Ordnance Survey opening up their data, this opens new opportunities in the UK
Google Maps has clearly led the way here, but with the Ordnance Survey opening up their data, this opens new opportunities in the UK
Google Maps has clearly led the way here, but with the Ordnance Survey opening up their data, this opens new opportunities in the UK
Not the only example. Rewired State is an organisation which “runs hackdays where developers show government what is possible”, recently ran a ‘Youth’ event - and one of the winners was based around integrating library services into Facebook
Believe it or not Library Data is SEXY!
The Getting It System Toolkit (GIST) is a customizable set of tools and workflows that will enhance interlibrary loan and just-in-time acquisitions services; purchase request processing; and cooperative collection development efforts.
Developed at the State University of New York College at Geneseo
Brings together disparate information sources with key data, such as: uniqueness; free online sources; reviews and rankings; and purchasing options and prices
This struck a chord with me. When you see the best mashups, you wonder why you didn’t think of it first! Then you wish you could do it
You can! Stop thinking of information as a body of work, but something that you can disaggregate and recombine. Look for the sources and tools that help you do this.
Librarians always manipulated information - it is a key skill set. The difficult part of mashups is not the tech stuff - it is about identifying information that can be sensibly mashed and presenting it in a compelling and accessible way. Have to assess provenance of information. Have to know the boundaries of what we are doing.
Doesn’t have to be ££££
Barcamps and Unconferences
The final push to do something was an event organised by Mike Ellis - previously at the Science Museum, now at Eduserve - the ‘Mashed Museums’ event. So I shamelessly reappropriated the name and so...
Mashed Libraries
After I got back from ALA, I wrote a speculative post for my blog suggesting the idea, and got a really enthusiastic response. Luckily I was at a meeting with Paul Walk from UKOLN that same week, and he encouraged me to press ahead and offered support from UKOLN to make the first event happen.
I setup a ning to enable discussions and get some idea of who might come along and what they’d like to see on the day.
We got a venue provided for free (by David Flanders, then at Birkbeck, now at JISC) , the catering costs covered by UKOLN, and speakers who all gave their time for free - and about 30 people came along.
There were problems (not enough power, and me failing to organise vegan options on the catering) - but overall it was fun, and the response was positive, and Dave Pattern quickly volunteered to run a 2nd event in Huddersfield - Mash Oop North. This was quickly followed by Middlemash at Birmingham City University in the same year, followed by ‘Liver and Mash’ (Liverpool). The next event is at the end of this month (MashSpa in Bath - still time to sign up), and currently Haggis and Mash in Edinburgh in January 2011 being planned, with a further one being hosted at the University of Lincoln at some point in 2011
For me as much as the events is the ongoing sense of community - I think we are starting to build a community of tech interested and able librarians - and others (not just about librarians!) - twitter key for me.
Lists of tools on the wiki at mashedlibrary.com in the cookbook
Ideas and examples:
Enid, Paul, Tony, Dave, Chris, Gary, others, me
Enhancing Reading Lists with Yahoo Pipes
Horror mashup
F1/Election visualisations
Lists of tools on the wiki at mashedlibrary.com in the cookbook
Ideas and examples:
Enid, Paul, Tony, Dave, Chris, Gary, others, me
Enhancing Reading Lists with Yahoo Pipes
Horror mashup
F1/Election visualisations