Mixing and Mashing The future of Library as a service

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Mixing and MashingThe future of Library as a
service

• Richard Wallis
• Technology Evangelist
• Talis
• richard.wallis_at_talis.com

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Today

• Web 2.0 / Library 2.0
• A brief review
• Where are our users?
• How do we reach them?
• Examples
• Issues for the Library

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Web 2.0

• 2004 OReilly Media
• Attributes
• The web as a platform
• Data as the driving force
• Network effect Architecture of participation
• Lightweight business models
• Perpetual beta
• Wikis, Blogs, del.icio.us, RSS, Wikipedia

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Why now?
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Falling cost of storage
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Falling cost of compute power
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Growing connectivity
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Commoditisation
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The three Os
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Open Source
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Open Data
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Open APIs
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Library 2.0

• 2005 Michael Casey LibraryCrunch
• Taking the library to the user
• Library Blogs, RSS feeds
• Widgets gadgets
• Involving the user in the library
• Blog comments, reviews, tagging, wikis

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What can we learn from this?

• Libraries want to add value to their UIs
• Users want to interact with their library
• Users want services outside their library
• Users are not limited to a single library
• Staff want library services in their workflow
• The monolithic LMS/ILS is not fit for 21st century

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Solutions?

• Open Source LMS/ILS
• Koha
• Evergreen PINES
• Benefit of OS communities sharing innovation
• Open Source is not free
• In house expertise
• Support from commercial companies
• Open source but still a traditional LMS

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Solution

• Keystone
• Open Source framework to interface the LMS/ILS to
  the rest of the world
• Initially patron/borrower interaction

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Solution

• The Talis Platform
• A web-scale Platform
• Storage and indexing
• Bigfoot
• Directory
• Silkworm
• Open APIs

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Youll wonder where the Library went
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Youll wonder where the Library went
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Summary

• Web 2.0 / Library 2.0
• Open - Participative - Innovation
• Open Platform Services
• Making it real
• Simple, low-cost, Library as a Service
• Free to develop
• Find out more tdn.talis.com
• Unions, consortia, widgets, OPACs
• Library as a service
• Branding issues
• Visibility issues

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Mixing and MashingThe future of Library as a
service

• Richard Wallis
• Technology Evangelist
• Talis
• richard.wallis_at_talis.com