Slideshow Transcript

1. Slide 1: If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?\": Introduction and overview of issues Gordon Dunsire
2. Slide 2: My yellow brick road  Early 2007: the world is black and white And I’m somewhat pessimistic about the future of cataloguing And the emerging information Dark Age …  Mid 2007: the wind begins to blow SLIC’n’Flickr; NLS’n’YouTube Theme for my workshop for Croatian archives, libraries and museums is … Web2.0 stuff
3. Slide 3: Thunder and (en)lightening  Me: I can do the Flickr and YouTube bit, plus a Google maps mash-up  Co-presenter at workshop (younger (much!), slimmer (a lot!): I can do a basic introduction to other Web2.0 stuff like del.ic.io.us, Facebook, etc. And I get blown away …
4. Slide 4: Not in Kansas …  So at the next CDLR staff meeting I enthusiastically suggest that we should all be getting engaged with this stuff And the Director agrees! And then the rest of the team (looking a bit bored) point out that they’ve all been on Facebook for months …  And then I realize …
5. Slide 5: We are all, basically, Munchkins! And getting older all the time … Any youthful wizards or (good) witches out there? Image courtesy Daily Telegraph
6. Slide 6: Collective metadata  Today’s presentations will focus on metadata for information retrieval And most of it will be familiar to library cataloguers, even if the labels are different  That metadata, like those who create it, will be associated with specific organisations or individuals  But what about metadata and Web2.0 at a higher level of granularity, and, in turn, cataloguers acting collectively?
7. Slide 7: A collective mash-up  Location metadata from collection-level descriptions in the Scottish Collections Network (SCONE)  Mashed with Google Maps Using the Application Program Interface Public, free
8. Slide 8: Google map of all Scotland’s archives, libraries and museums
9. Slide 9: Locations of Robert Burns collections in Scotland
10. Slide 11: But what about The users?
11. Slide 12: Some typical end-users
12. Slide 13: And collective cataloguers?  Web2.0 now an essential tool for developing cataloguing standards to meet the challenges of an international, digital environment Wikis, blogs, Skype, etc.  And those standards becoming more Web2.0 compatible Open declaration for common utility FRBR, LCSH, LCNAF, MARC21, RDA …
13. Slide 14: http://dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/
14. Slide 15: Web3.0  If we can tell computers that: Library.title = Archive.title = Museum.caption = Bibliotheque.titre = MARC.245 = <title> “Jane Smith” (writer) <> “Jane Smith” (musician) “Economics” = “330” > “ 交換率”  Then Web3.0 = Cataloguable Web = Semantic Web
15. Slide 16: Towards the Emerald City! Image courtesy MPTV.net