Bringing eContent to Life

Bringing e-content to life

Chris Clarke, Talis Group Limited

shared innovation ™ http://www.flickr.com/photos/unaciertamirada/80802561/sizes/o/

shared innovation ™ http://www.flickr.com/photos/rappensuncle/143438318/sizes/l/ Technology ANY INDUSTRY comes in waves PRINTING PRESS Industrial revolution Mechanisation of industry Electricity

shared innovation ™ last 30 years in computing industry... In publishing, printing press, move to online - all waves

shared innovation ™ Recent Junction between publishing and computing - web 1.0 Lets talk about the web

the web circa 1991 shared innovation ™ <a href=” http://example.org ”>

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shared innovation ™ a web of documents

shared innovation ™ web 2.0 is a highly evolved web of documents, with user generated content on top (and rounded corners of course!)

shared innovation ™ Actually in technology terms, web 2.0 = web 1.0

shared innovation ™ if you’re currently thinking about web 2.0, you’re about 10 years late

shared innovation ™ now lets talk about what’s next...

shared innovation ™ What’s wrong with web 2.0? to do that, going to look at what’s wrong with status quo

shared innovation ™ a simple google query by a novice user

hidden meaning of links shared innovation ™ <a href=” http://example.org ”> one of the problems is...

shared innovation ™ the semantics of the link cannot be determined by machines

shared innovation ™ for the next wave of intelligent web applications, we need a machine readable web

shared innovation ™ this is the promise of semantic web

shared innovation ™ Next wave needs new technology - lets take a look at it (we are at start of 10 year wave)

shared innovation ™ Concept: World wide web has bibliography World-Wide Web Bibliography Evolution of the web - based on creating machine readable facts example of links as facts

shared innovation ™ wikipedia has human readable facts...

shared innovation ™ lots of facts - how can we get at them?

shared innovation ™ 218 million facts

shared innovation ™ what can we do with all those facts?

shared innovation ™ Talked a lot about technology - now Talis Talis background, 40 years, seen lots of waves

shared innovation ™ http://www.flickr.com/photos/erikvanhannen/2234603554/sizes/l/ Talis from the library world, began in the “print wave” became good at managing metadata

shared innovation ™ today we’re looking at how facts can be published on the semantic web

shared innovation ™ what could we build with a web of scholarly (meta) data? (2 things) Going to show 2 things...

shared innovation ™ #1: Project Xiphos (2008) Example of a prototype

shared innovation ™ 500 articles (supplied in XML)

shared innovation ™ 19808 articles 21029 people

shared innovation ™ how do we make this data useful?

shared innovation ™ Xiphos Network: A scholarly social network prototype

shared innovation ™ Xiphos Network: Built in 4 weeks

shared innovation ™ Xiphos Network: Built in 4 weeks (3 of those spent arguing)

shared innovation ™ not pretty 4 weeks

shared innovation ™ Society brands with a community

shared innovation ™ #2: Undergraduate Resource Lists (2009) Example of a product

shared innovation ™ Born in the web 1.0 world, signposting to physical content Legacy

shared innovation ™ http://www.flickr.com/photos/16634670@N00/2310866391/

shared innovation ™ 1/3rd UK HE market, 1 million students

shared innovation ™ Born in the web 3.0 world, integrating e-content deep into the learning workflow

shared innovation ™ Getting to content can be hard

shared innovation ™ http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/200844.htm http://www.ebrary.com/corp/newspdf/ebrary_student_survey.pdf http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/research/ciber/observatory/ Half the academic libraries surveyed indicated that their use of eBooks was to support their core reading lists 57% of those not using eBooks did not do so because they don’t know where to find them Only 1.3% surveyed perceived easy to locate as an advantage the eBook

shared innovation ™ today....

shared innovation ™ Not needed but use components

shared innovation ™ But how do we bring it to life?

shared innovation ™ soon....

shared innovation ™ Content at point of need

shared innovation ™ Use network of millions of users to add value

shared innovation ™ Just the start - imagine the other possibilities Research tools based on semantic searching, data sets, blah blah blah

shared innovation ™ Don’t have to be a big player to take part

shared innovation ™ Free Open Day May 28th Register at: www.talis.com/aspire/events

shared innovation ™ We’re at the start of the next wave - start planning Even big players can get caught out - Microsoft vs. Google

shared innovation ™ Questions? 28th May, Register at: www.talis.com/aspire/events

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