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B1 Predicting developments: Future Technologies and Their Applications
1. Future Technologies and
Their Applications
A one-day workshop
at ILI 2013 facilitated
by Brian Kelly and
Tony Hirst
Twitter hashtag:
#ili2013fut
Available under a
Creative Commons
(CC-BY licence)
1
B1: Predicting Technology
Trends:
a Methodology
2. The Future: A Quick Summary
What technological developments might
have an impact in the future?
For the impatient, here‟s a summary!
2
13. Shush!
13
Librarians will appropriate technological
developments to support their activities!
Acknowledgements to Patrick
Hochstenbach (@hochstenbach)
14. What Can We Conclude?
Assumptions of:
• Inevitability of technological developments
• Economic growth (we can afford them)
• Political and social environment (no legal or
environmental barriers)
There is a need to:
• Be wary of predictions which:
Simply justify our organisation‟s current
approaches (cf. music industry)
Reflect personal beliefs
• Base predictions on evidence
• Acknowledge that evidence may challenge
organisational or personal beliefs / prejudices
14
15. The Context
In the future mobiles will be smaller & faster; Data
will be Big and content and services will be open.
Lots of opportunities for librarians
15
16. Accompanying Paper
Papers on “What Next for
Libraries? Making Sense
of the Future” and
“Reflecting on Yesterday,
Understanding Today,
Planning for Tomorrow”
presented at EMTACL 2012
and Umbrella 2013
conferences
See:
• bit.ly/emtacl12-kelly
• bit.ly/umbrella-13-kelly
16
17. Inventions, Innovations,
Improvements
From Wikipedia:
• Invention: the creation of the idea or
method itself.
• Innovation: the use of a better and, as
a result, novel idea or method.
• Improvement: doing current activities
better.
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Today‟s focus: innovations within the organisation.
18. Time of Growth
1990s & early 2000s saw:
• Increased funding across
education sector
• Significant developments in IT
sector
• Willingness by senior managers
& funding bodies to invest in
innovative IT developments (e.g.
JISC development programmes)
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“Great proposal – we’ll fund it”
19. Time of Growth is Over
Late 2000s and beyond:
• Decreased funding across
education & public sector
• Acknowledgements that innovation
can provide growth and cost
savings
• Significant developments continue
in IT sector
• Investment in innovative IT
developments need to be based on
evidence of benefits & likelihood of
success
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“You want how much? And no evidence
it will work! You’re crazy!”
20. Lessons From The Past
Importance of open standards:
• Open standards are essential for interoperability;
preservation; …
• Therefore use SMIL and SVG (open standards from
W3C) and not Flash (proprietary)
The need to be realistic
• What happened to SMIL (and SVG)?
• The marketplace didn‟t embrace the open standards
• Adoption of open standards would have been costly
• Flash is now being superceded by HTML5
• Flash‟s demise due to lack of support by Apple on
mobile devices
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NOTE: SVG is becoming important due to its use on mobile devices
(~10 years after launch)
22. Why Future-Watch?
Need for future-watching to help identify tomorrow‟s
key technologies:
• Change existing business processes
• Decide to invest resources in finding out more
(e.g. commissioning reports)
• Invest in training and development in new
areas
• Explore ways of deprecating existing services
(cf WH Smith‟s decision to stop selling CD
singles in 2004)
• …
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23. JISC Observatory
JISC Observatory:
• JISC-funded initiative
• Systematises processes for anticipating and
responding to projected future trends &
scenarios
• Provided by JISC Innovation Support Centres
at UKOLN and CETIS
• Ran from 2011-2013
• See <http://blog.observatory.jisc.ac.uk/>
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Cessation of core funding for UKOLN and CETIS led to closure of JISC
Observatory on 31 July 2013. Therefore need to ensure sustainability of
ideas and approaches for use by institutions
25. Scanning Activities
Blog posts:
Posts published on JISC Observatory
blog and on existing blogs.
Monitoring trends:
Monitoring trends in order to:
Benchmark current usage patterns
Identify trends
Identify emerging patterns of usage
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26. Sense-making
Need to:
• Understand limitations of evidence-gathering
techniques (including documenting „paradata‟ so
survey findings are reproducible & can be critiqued)
• Provide suggestions of implications of developments
for the sector
In addition need to encourage feedback on:
• Evidence-gathering techniques
• Interpretation of findings
• Implications of developments
In order to inform:
• Further investigation
• Policy-making, planning and funding
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30. Significant Trends: Social Media
There were “more than 150 million Tweets about the
Olympics over the past 16 days”. [Twitter blog]
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31. Significant Trends: Social Media
Survey in Aug 2012 of institutional use of Facebook across
the 24 Russell Group universities found >1M „Likes‟ followers
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32. Behind The Data
Trends in Fb „Likes‟ for Russell
Group universities since Jan
2011 show steady increase
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But note increase in Jul 2012
due to addition of 4 new
universities!
But might trends hide a more
complex story:
• Usage & growth dominated
by one significant player.
• More modest usage
generally
33. Need for Paradata
Surveys carried out to monitor usage & trends for:
• Institutional use of social media
• Use of researcher profiling services (e.g. Google
Scholar, Academia.edu, …) across institutions
Observations (and feedback):
• Differing results found if quotes used
• Possible inclusion of wrong Unis (e.g. Newcastle
University, Australia)
• Personalised results depending on client
environment
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Need to provide paradata and encourage feedback on processes and
interpretation of findings
34. Lies, Damned Lies and Graphs
“#Blekko traffic goes through the roof –
for good reason. Try it out!”
Based on blog post entitled “Blekko’s
Traffic Is Up Almost 400 Percent; Here
Are The CEO’s Five Reasons Why”
(includes dissatisfaction with Google)
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Is Blekko’s Traffic Really Going Through The Roof? Will It Challenge Google?,
UK Web Focus blog, 18 April 2012
35. Open Sense-making
Importance of open approaches to
interpretation of signals:
• Evidence-gathering methodologies may have
flaws
• Incorrect or inappropriate implications may be
made
• This may lead to wrong decisions being
made
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Open sense-making approaches may be difficult – your marketing
department may wish a consistent, positive message to be made.
36. Beware vested
interests who may
be threatened by
implications of
predictions
Developments
may
• Be aligned with
current plans
• Challenge
current plans
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5 April 2013
37. Sense-Making: Social Media
Social media:
• Is about nodes and connections
• Numbers do matter for effective
engagement and disseminations
• Experiences from other areas:
Nos. of mobile phones
Importance of email
“All bugs are shallow to many eyes”
Implications:
• Importance of best practices for popular & well-
used channels
• Difficulties for new entrants e.g. Diaspora (open
alternative to Facebook) and identi.ca and app.net
(new open alternative to Twitter)
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38. Open Data
“Is London 2012 a
haven for open
data?”
Conclusions:
• “Not this time”
• “But it is the first
data Olympics”
• “It's hard to see
that by [Rio]
2016 this won't
emerge as data
we can all use”
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39. Open Data
“Manchester City
to open the archive
on player data and
statistics”
Example of:
• Public interest in
open data
• Interest from
commercial
sector
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40. Warning From The Past
Tim Berners-Lee didn‟t
let evidence of the
popularity of Gopher
hinder development of
the Web
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42. Conclusions
• We tend to believe in prediction which
interest is or justifies our existence
• Economic realities necessitates more
objective approaches to future-watching
• Social media and big data can provide
access to evidence that was previously
difficult to use
• Evidence-gathering processes and
interpretation can also be flawed, so need
for open debate
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