Transcript The changing digital library landscape: trends in the world of Web 2.0 Lorcan Dempsey University of Edinburgh Edina is 10 3 July 2006

The changing
digital
library
landscape:
trends in the world of Web 2.0
Lorcan Dempsey
University of Edinburgh
Edina is 10
3 July 2006
10 years
Web 1.0
Regardless of these advances, many library websites continue to
replicate the physical and functional organization of the traditional
library.
Web-based access to services has evolved as a thin veneer over
library technical infrastructures that were designed to support
traditional library services.
As such, library websites are typically organized around library
functions (interlibrary loan, circulation, reference) or existing
information stores (the card catalog, print indexes).
Krisellen Maloney
Structural changes in new
environment
Insanity is doing more of
what you are already
doing and expecting a
different result.
Newt Gingrich quoting Albert Einstein!
Network
Granulation
Remixing, ….
Schema
Content
Services
Organizations
…
The network is inside
In the flow: research and learning
behaviors
Organizational evolution
Flat applications: recombinance,
mashup, remixing
Robin Murray
Workplace applications- points of need
Mobilize - to put into action
Mobilize
Specialize
• Local service
• Local added value
• Local context
• Local knowledge
Synthesize
Specialize - involve specific
knowledge in order to serve a
particular purpose; to apply or
direct to specific end or use.
Synthesize - to combine often
diverse conceptions into a
coherent whole.
Web services Content
Registries Fulfillment services
Patron services Profiles Policies Forward knowledge …
Synthesise, Local
CSUSM, David
Walker
Synthesise, network
Specialize,
Local
Mobilize,
Local
Innovative Uses of Metasearch:
Rethinking Metasearch for a
Better User Experience
David Lindahl & Jeff
Suszczynski, U Rochester
‘2 clicks to full-text’
Integrate ‘find articles’
service with other
services
‘Variety of pathways’
Metasearch appropriate
databases from course
pages
Looking to
synthesize,
specialize,
mobilize
The network is inside 1:
In the flow
Research and learning behavior


Database > website > workflow
Re-creation
Self assembled digital identity
Prefabricated (e.g. CMS)
Database > website > workflow
Gather – create - share
Raymond Yee
URL is the currency
OCLC adaptation of Liz Lyon
pentags
Conversation and evidence
Mobilize the edge of user contribution
Mobilize resources in user spaces
Integrity and authenticity
Versioning
Citing
University of Minnesota
http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/mellon/KM%20JStor%20Presentation.pps
In the user workflow
Workflow as ‘intermediate’ consumer
Search engine, CMS, RSS, toolbar,
extensions, …
Integration: resource
integration supports
integration into user
environment
No service is the sole focus of user
attention
Liquid linkable content
 Plug into multiple channels for
discovery, location, fulfillment, …
web services
Gather, create, share
 Search, link, reuse, analyse,
chunk, create,
The network is inside 2:
organizational change
Organizational co-evolution
1. The long tail: Unified discovery and
reduced transaction costs
2. Specialization
3. At what level?
URL is the currency of the web
The long tail
Systemwide
efficiences
Aggregation of supply
•Unified discovery
•Low transaction costs
Aggregation of demand
Impact?
Moving to the network level
Systemwide
efficiencies
Cat/Resource sharing
Journal lit
Impact
Moving to the network level
Storage
Amazon S3
Application
Salesforce.com
Computation
Sun Grid
Data
Refworks
Shared cataloging
JSTOR
Google
Multilevel approach to …
Collections
D2D
Social and consumer
environments
Business intelligence
 Shared offsite storage
 Aggregate and analyse
digital collections
 Institutional repository
 Digital storage and
preservation
 Social networking
services: tagging,
reviews,
recommendations
 Share mobilizing
approaches
 Virtual reference
 Consolidated discovery
 Knowledge base
 Resolution - Service
routing – fulfilment
 Synthesize and mobilize
shared usage data
 Recommendation,
management decisions
 Digitization and offsite
storage
Sourcing options
Deep resource sharing
Develop ‘horizontal’ shared
services – remove
redundancies and build
capacity
Institutional
 Enterprise systems
 Research and learning
infrastructure
 Cultural institutions
Jurisdictional
 California Digital Library
 DEFF
 JISC, SURF
Third party
 Consortial
 Vendor
Issues
New processes not well
enough defined
 (ERM, IR, …)
 Third party services
underdeveloped
 Lack of
architecture/business
model
Project mentality
‘
Vertical’ structures
entrenched – within and
between institutions
Shared services
framework not
institutionalized.
At what level are things
done?
The network is inside 3
A flatter world
1. Web services: functional components
on the network
2. Modularize and specialize
3. Simplify and customize
4. Supports remixing services.
Examples
Connect discovery environments to
backend library systems
Interact with registries of services
Make functionality available in multiple
applications
It must change
The network is ‘inside’
The library has to co-evolve with changing
research and learning behaviors.
The impact of technology on research and
learning is more telling than its impact on
the library itself.
Flexible responses are important.
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