The changing digital library landscape: trends in the world of Web 2.0

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The changing digitallibrarylandscapetrends
in the world of Web 2.0

• Lorcan Dempsey
• University of Edinburgh
• Edina is 10
• 3 July 2006

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10 years
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Web 1.0
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).
Krisellen Maloney
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• Structural changes in new environment

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Insanity is doing more of what you are already
doing and expecting a different result. Newt
Gingrich quoting Albert Einstein!
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• Network
• Granulation
• Remixing, .

• Schema
• Content
• Services
• Organizations

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The network is inside

• In the flow research and learning behaviors
• Organizational evolution
• Flat applications recombinance, mashup, remixing

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Robin Murray
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Synthesise, Local
CSUSM, David Walker
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Synthesise, network
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Specialize, Local
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Mobilize, Local
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Innovative Uses of Metasearch Rethinking
Metasearch for a Better User Experience David
Lindahl Jeff Suszczynski, U Rochester

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

Looking to synthesize, specialize, mobilize
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The network is inside 1In the flow

• Research and learning behavior
• Database gt website gt workflow
• Re-creation

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Self assembled digital identity
Prefabricated (e.g. CMS)
Database gt website gt workflow
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• Gather create - share

Raymond Yee
URL is the currency
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OCLC adaptation of Liz Lyon
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• pentags

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Conversation and evidence

• Mobilize the edge of user contribution
• Mobilize resources in user spaces

Integrity and authenticity Versioning Citing
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University of Minnesota http//www.lib.umn.edu/abo
ut/mellon/KM20JStor20Presentation.pps
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• Workflow as intermediate consumer
• Search 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,

• In the user workflow
• Integration resource integration supports
  integration into user environment
• Liquid linkable content

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The network is inside 2organizational change

• Organizational co-evolution
• The long tail Unified discovery and reduced
  transaction costs
• Specialization
• At what level?

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URL is the currency of the web
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The long tail
Systemwide efficiences

• Aggregation of supply
• Unified discovery
• Low transaction costs
• Aggregation of demand

Impact?
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Moving to the network level
Systemwide efficiencies
Cat/Resource sharingJournal lit
Impact
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Moving to the network level

• Storage
• Amazon S3
• Computation
• Sun Grid

• Application
• Salesforce.com
• Data
• Refworks
• Shared cataloging
• JSTOR
• Google

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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

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Sourcing options

• Deep resource sharing
• Develop 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

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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

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The network is inside 3

• A flatter world
• Web services functional components on the
  network
• Modularize and specialize
• Simplify and customize
• Supports remixing services.

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Examples

• Connect discovery environments to backend library
  systems
• Interact with registries of services
• Make functionality available in multiple
  applications

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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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