by Patrick Danowski

Sharing and Control. Libraries using Web 2.0/3.0

About me

• Computer scientist

• Academic librarian

• from 10/06 - 09/08Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

• German Union Catalogue of Serials

• Department Information- and Datamanagement

• Web 2.0

• Social tagging

• Sharing and reuse

• Social Networking

• Web 3.0

Outline

Web 2.0 for libraries

Web 2.0

Web 2.0

Web 2.0

• Term created for a O‘Reilly Conference 2005

• Technics where already there:

• Wikis

• Blogs

• Social Tagging

• not only linking information / linking people

• Interactive

• User contribution & feedback

• Open services

• Reuse / Remix Culture

Web 2.0Principles

Library

Social Tagging

• del.icio.us:

first social tagging site

social bookmarking

• links with tags

• tag = free keyword

• del.icio.us:

first social tagging site

social bookmarking

• links with tags

• tag = free keyword

• Tagcloud

• bigger words are more often used

Visualization of Indexing

Sharing and Remix

Tim O‘Reilly

Data is the next Intel Inside

• created by the libraries

• controlled data

• „product“ by the library

Bibliographic Data

• How can data get enhanced by using it?

• What can users create with the tools of the library?

• Will control and web 2.0 fit?

• Let‘s take a look...

Data and Web 2.0

Yochai Benkler (Yale Law Schol) in Steel This Film II

Open Library Project

• Goal: A free index of all books

Open Library Project

• Goal: A free index of all books

• Access to full text if possible

Open Library Project

• Goal: A free index of all books

• Access to full text if possible

Open Library Project

• Goal: A free index of all books

• Access to full text if possible

• users can catalogue

Open Library Project

• Goal: A free index of all books

• Access to full text if possible

• users can catalogue

Open Library Project

• Goal: A free index of all books

• Access to full text if possible

• users can catalogue

• in future: can be a source for a book URN

Open Library Project

Open Library Project

• bringing toghether so many data as possible

• data of publishers (ONIX)

• data of national libraries (MARC21)

• Answer to the report of the Library of Congress's Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

• Published by the Open Knowledge Foundation

• Free Access and Open Licence for Bibliographic Data

• http://www.okfn.org/wiki/FutureOfBibliographicControl

Petition for free Data

Open Licenses

• Open Access

Open Licenses

• Open Access

• Berlin Declaration: worldwide, right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose

Open Licenses

• Open Access

• Berlin Declaration: worldwide, right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose

• Creative Commons Licenses: CC-BY / CC-BY-SA

Open Licenses

Wikisource

• sister project of Wikipedia

• Chosen Sources:

• Interesting and special sources

• not available until now in fulltext

Wikisource

Content

• Allow reuse of digital objects

Content

• Allow reuse of digital objects

• Public Domain should stay public domain in the digital world

Content

• Allow reuse of digital objects

• Public Domain should stay public domain in the digital world

• new chances through reuse and remix

Content

• Allow reuse of digital objects

• Public Domain should stay public domain in the digital world

• new chances through reuse and remix

• Example Wikisource

Content

Amazon Visualization

Amazon Visualization

Amazon Visualization

Amazon Visualization

Amazon Visualization

Facebook

Social Networks

Facebook

• Social Network

Facebook

• Social Network

• Small pieces loosely joint

Facebook

• Social Network

• Small pieces loosely joint

• Web 2.0 Aggregator

Facebook

• Social Network

• Small pieces loosely joint

• Web 2.0 Aggregator

• del.icio.us

Facebook

• Social Network

• Small pieces loosely joint

• Web 2.0 Aggregator

• del.icio.us

• Slideshare

Facebook

• Social Network

• Small pieces loosely joint

• Web 2.0 Aggregator

• del.icio.us

• Slideshare

• Persons, Institutions and projects

Facebook

What can be done...

What can be done...

• A searchbox is nice but not the best tool

What can be done...

• A searchbox is nice but not the best tool

• Goal: You must be often of the startpage of users to get their attention

What can be done...

• A searchbox is nice but not the best tool

• Goal: You must be often of the startpage of users to get their attention

• Connect „My Library“ with facebook

Web 3.0

• not one definition

Web 3.0

• not one definition

• Semantic Web + Web 2.0

Web 3.0

• not one definition

• Semantic Web + Web 2.0

• Semantic Web = Machine can interpret content

Web 3.0

• not one definition

• Semantic Web + Web 2.0

• Semantic Web = Machine can interpret content

Web 3.0

• not one definition

• Semantic Web + Web 2.0

• Semantic Web = Machine can interpret content

• Web 2.0 = Many people create content

Web 3.0

• COinS

• Microformats

Examples

• Wordpress Plugin (for blogger)

• GBV (Library Catalog, Germany)

• WIKINDX (Collaboration Bibliographies)

• Zotero

• ….

COinS Support

• Context Object in Spans

• A Convention to Embed Bibliographic Metadata in HTML

• HTML span element with class attribute set to "Z3988"

• http://ocoins.info

COinS

• <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004rft.title=Support+Zotero... rft.aulast=Danowskirft.aufirst=Patrickrft.subject=Softwarerft.date=2007-08-01rft.type=blogPostrft.identifier=http://www.bibliothek2null.de/2007/08/01/support-zotero-with-wordpress-en/

&amp;rft.language=English">

</span>

Format (simplified)

• web-based data formatting approach

• re-use existing content as metadata

• using XHTML and HTML classes / attributes

• human readable

• automatically processable by software

Microformats

• hCard: contacts

• hCalendar: dates

• hReview: reviews

• hResume: vitas

• XFN: social networks

• ...

• hcitation

• just a first draft

• libraries can / should participate

Citations in Microformats

One more thing

The mobil web

• Phones, MP3-Player, … geting mobil online devices

• The web is getting mobil

• which new services can libraries offer in the mobil world?

Things to remember

• Social tagging can be an additional approach to index documents better

• Social tagging can be an additional approach to index documents better

• Sharing of controlled bibliographic data can make libraries an parter in the web 2.0

• Social tagging can be an additional approach to index documents better

• Sharing of controlled bibliographic data can make libraries an parter in the web 2.0

• Users like to remixing Content(copyright don‘t help)

• Be a party of the users network

• Be a party of the users network

• First steps to semantic data can be done on the presentation level

• Be a party of the users network

• First steps to semantic data can be done on the presentation level

• The web is getting mobil.

Your turn...

• Lets get open!

Your turn...

• Lets get open!

• Questions? Discussion?

Your turn...

• Lets get open!

• Questions? Discussion?

• Patrick Danowskipatrick.danowski@web.de