Open Platforms and the anti-fragile

libraryIFLA New Librarians Global Connection webinar

15 April 2014

3D printing isn’t the digital literacy that librarians most need to teach

Jon Udell (hugh.li/l/Udell)Hugh Rundle (hugh.li/l/3DPrinter)

If you are simply showing people how to use new technologies without explaining what the technology is doing to them then you have failed as a librarian.

AntifragileNassim Nicholas Taleb

weaker effect of instabilitystronger

fragile robust anti-fragile

90 / 10 investing

Wilkin ProfilesDan Cohen (hugh.li/l/WilkinProfiles)

Unique collectionLeft-leaning Wilkin Profile

Popular collectionRight-leaning Wilkin Profile

Rounded collection‘Well rounded’ Wilkin Profile

Antifragile collectionLeft-Leaning Barbell Wilkin Profile

– David Brunton

“Digital Preservation is just access …in the future”

– Ed Summers

“The underlying implication here is that if you are not providing meaningful access in the present to digital content, then you

are not preserving it.”

(hugh.li/l/WebAsPreservation)

BIBFRAME (hugh.li/l/BIBFRAME)

OCLC Linked Open Data (hugh.li/l/OCLCLoD)

Schema.org

Open Platforms are the future of libraries

‘Soft Tech’ is more important than ‘Hard Tech’

Ask not “What are the features?” but rather“What are the consequences?”

Continue the conversation

@hughrundlewww.hughrundle.net

Credits3D printer - creative_tools https://flic.kr/p/bqYzkt

Antifragile - sbeebe https://flic.kr/p/meax42

Gold - bullionvault https://flic.kr/p/6toD2V

Rocket - paula_summerwind https://flic.kr/p/4FDuit

Wilkin Profile - Dan Cohen http://hugh.li/l/WilkinProfiles