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Is Library 1.0 Ready for Web 2.0: Library 2.0 ca 2007
Technology and Trends Roundtable
Robert H. McDonald, UC San Diego, Director Strategic Data Alliances Supercomputer Center

Met another Twitter friend! He’s the presenter. This is fun!

  • Hired by Supercomputer Center because a large part of that is working with cultural heritage centers like libraries to see how they can work together.
  • Web 2.0: What, Why, How
    • Showed a O’Reilly and Web 2.0 video
    • Web 2.0 = the network is the platform
    • Look at the fringe, that’s where the future is (apple, voip, snowboarding, etc. came from people invested in fringe hobbies.)
    • Recommended conferences for libraries: Code4Lib, Access Canada, ER&L, Cross discipline conferences (O’Reilly Emerging Technologies Conferences, BloggerCon) Some of these post video or audio of events.
      • This is where new ideas come from.
      • Niche groups form to deal with these problems and disband when problem is solved.
    • Moving from web site to web service. Unstructured information to structured information.
    • Push methodology/web 2.0
    • Social Software is “many to many”
    • Mashups, APIs, and web services
    • Network as glue: How fast is your connection? Do your services cross commercial interests?
  • Library 1.0: How to get to 2.0
    • Physical space vs. virtual place, push vs. pull, ubiquitous vs. non-ubiquitous
    • Must put what users want at their fingertips.
      • Save the time of the user and librarian.
      • Showed this.
    • Disconnects with 2.0
      • Personalization-we’re worried about privacy, but our users are expecting customized services like recommendations or next gen library finders
      • Socialization-tagging, blogging, IMing
      • Integration-Open Source Software (LAMP, AJAX, RUBY)
      • Technology Support-Public Computing Platform, Wireless 802.11x, 700mhz and 900 mhz Wireless Spectrum
    • OPAC/Chinese: we’ve taken bad models and exported them.
  • Moving to Web 2.0
    • 2.0 inspiration, 2.0 management, 2.0 integration
    • You have to be ready to experiment, and if the experiment doesn’t work out, you have to be able to walk away
    • Web 3.0: Eric Schmidt video
    • Infrastructure is changing, and how we tie things together is changing
    • What kind of bandwidth you have
  • Final thoughts:
    • Must read Small Pieces Loosely Joined (I second this!!!)
    • Think about mashups and remixing of web services (next gen catalog, worldcat local, endeca, pines)

Great session! A lot of fun!!