The changing digitallibrarylandscape:trends in the world of Web 2.0

Lorcan Dempsey

University of EdinburghEdina is 103 July 2006

10 years

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).

Web 1.0

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!

NetworkGranulationRemixing, ….

SchemaContent ServicesOrganizations…

The network is inside

In the flow: research and learning behaviors

Organizational evolutionFlat applications: recombinance,

mashup, remixing

Robin Murray

Synthesize - to combine often diverse conceptions into a coherent whole.

Synthesize

Web services

Patron services

Content

Policies

Registries

Forward knowledge

Fulfillment services

Mobilize

Specialize - involve specific knowledge in order to serve a particular purpose; to apply or direct to specific end or use.

Specialize

…

Mobilize - to put into action

Workplace applications - points of need

Profiles

• Local service• Local added value• Local context• Local knowledge

Synthesise, Local

CSUSM, David Walker

Synthesise, network

Specialize, Local

Mobilize, Local

‘2 clicks to full-text’Integrate ‘find articles’ service with other services‘Variety of pathways’Metasearch appropriate databases from course pages

Innovative Uses of Metasearch: Rethinking Metasearch for a Better User ExperienceDavid Lindahl & Jeff Suszczynski, U Rochester

Looking to synthesize, specialize, mobilize

The network is inside 1:In the flow

Research and learning behavior Database > website > workflow Re-creation

Database > website > workflow

Prefabricated (e.g. CMS)

Self assembled digital identity

Gather – create - share

Raymond Yee

URL is the currency

OCLC adaptation of Liz Lyon

pentags

Conversation and evidence

Mobilize the edge of user contributionMobilize resources in user spaces

Integrity and authenticityVersioning

Citing

University of Minnesotahttp://www.lib.umn.edu/about/mellon/KM%20JStor%20Presentation.pps

In the user workflow

Integration: resource integration supports integration into user environment

Liquid linkable content

Workflow as ‘intermediate’ consumerSearch engine, CMS, RSS, toolbar, extensions, …

No service is the sole focus of user attention

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-evolution1. The long tail: Unified discovery and

reduced transaction costs2. Specialization3. At what level?

URL is the currency of the web

The long tail

Impact?

Systemwide efficiences

Aggregation of supply•Unified discovery•Low transaction costs

Aggregation of demand

Moving to the network level

Impact

Systemwide efficiencies

Cat/Resource sharingJournal lit

Moving to the network level

StorageAmazon S3

ComputationSun Grid

ApplicationSalesforce.com

DataRefworksShared catalogingJSTORGoogle

Multilevel approach to …

Collections Shared offsite storage Aggregate and analyse

digital collections Institutional repository Digital storage and

preservation

Social and consumer environments

Social networking services: tagging, reviews, recommendations

Share mobilizing approaches

Virtual reference

D2D Consolidated discovery Knowledge base Resolution - Service

routing – fulfilment

Business intelligence Synthesize and mobilize

shared usage data Recommendation,

management decisions Digitization and offsite

storage

Sourcing options

Deep resource sharingDevelop ‘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

Vertical’ structures entrenched – within and between institutions

Shared services framework not institutionalized.

At what level are things done?

New processes not well enough defined

(ERM, IR, …) Third party services

underdeveloped Lack of

architecture/business model

Project mentality‘

The network is inside 3

A flatter world1. Web services: functional components

on the network 2. Modularize and specialize3. Simplify and customize4. Supports remixing services.

Examples

Connect discovery environments to backend library systems

Interact with registries of servicesMake 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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