Books, BytesBlogs and Wikis

Ray Uzwyshyn, Ph.D., MLISDept. of Digital and Learning Technologies

UWF Libraries, 2008-2009

Wider Rationales for UWF Libraries New Technology Strategies

Library Blog Library Wiki

Library Weblog: Books and BytesAvailable from Homepage, Jan 2008Wordpress 2.26 – PHP/MYSQLhttp://library.uwf.eduhttp://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/library

Library Task Force WikiInternal, Staff Groups, July 2008Wikimedia – PHP/MySQLhttp://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/tf-wiki-1.12

What are Blogs and Wikis?

Easily Publishable Online Representations of News or Domains of Knowledge

New Tools to Navigate, Share and Interact with Information - Develop knowledgebases

Why do Weblogs and Wikis matter?

• Next generation web tools (evolutionary)

• Envision new, dynamic ways to deliver and interact with information

• It’s where our users (students) are• Collaboration possibilities have

evolved on the Web• Enable opportunities for learning,

communication and knowledge development

AdvantagesInstant publishing to the Internet cost little or nothing (open source)

Provide features that open interaction with others

Empowering allow new avenues for development of

thoughts, ideas and materialization of ideas

Exciting and Dangerous: instant feedback regarding our services, announcements and events

Wikis & Blogs Characterized as

Web 2.0 Information Technology Tools

Participatory Media

Citizens’ Media

Disruptive Technologies To Publish on the Web

• Keeps the library technologically/ culturally relevant

• Keep our digital information space and infrastructure up-to-date

• Meets the demographic of changing student/faculty needs

Why are UWF Libraries exploring Weblogs and Wikis?

The Millennials (born 1980-2000)

Currently largest and most diverse student generation in American history39% of total population; 36% minority

Collaboration-oriented

Tech-embracing Generation N

Neil Howe and William Strauss, Millennial Rising, Vintage, 2000

Not trapped in TV paradigm

Not interpellated in One Way Epistemic systems.

Millennial expect Interaction with Information (Participatory Democracy)

Millennial Have Online Democratic Expectations

Neil Howe and William Strauss, Millennial Rising, Vintage, 2000

Web 2.0: User experience

• Information Expectations are changing

– Change in the way users consume information/ emphasis on interaction

– Subtle changes in technology lead to larger effects

How can you bestfind relevantinformation?

1) 60% The Web In a virtual setting2) 15% Google3) 12% Weblogs4) 8% Specialized Websites, Wikis

5) 2% From or in a group 6) 2% Cell, PDA, GPS (mobile to

a destination)7) 0.5% From a book/print source8) 0.3% In a classroom9) 0.15% From a

teacher/professor10) 0.15% At the library

reference desk

Information Seeking Among 10,000 MillennialPew Foundation Study, 2007

95% Web

Web 2.0: 1998-2008Interactive Web: Explosion of Commenting

75% of internet users 15-35 regularly rate persons, organizations, or organizational services online

Information Sharing, Frank public evaluation

Review By Peers, 1998-2008

Potential of Feedback

(2 way communication with Users, Democratic Media, participatory epistemology, participatory democracy)

What are our patrons/students/faculty thinking?

81% of 15-35 year olds regularly comment on weblogs

35% also post daily on blogs, wikis and social networking sites

Information Sharing and Evaluation

Content Creation by Age

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20

40

60

80

100

Ages 12-17

Ages 18-29

Ages 30-38

Ages 39-48

Ages 49-60

Ages 61-69

Ages 70+

Per

cent

age

Internet users

Total population

79% of internet users 18-35 subscribe at least 1 blog

Accessing New Information Content

Two thirds of 15-35 year old internet users use RSS feeds

Information Customization

http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/library

Share Information

Inform

HyperLink to Deeper Web Resources

Permalink and ArchiveInclude Archives (Searchable)

Include unique URL for each post (Permalink)

http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/library/?p=55

Save Useful Links

Subscribe

Characteristics of a Blog?

1-2/week 5-6/month

Frequently Updated Posts

Relatively Pithy Entries

Information Bytes Rather than ‘Sound Bites’

Death of Literacy - Birth of Digital/Visual/Information/Media Literacy

Brief Focused Announcements / Articles

• 2-5 Paragraphs/Entry, Brief Focused with links and images

Newer Entries

Older Entries

Emphasis on Current Information

Weblog Organization

ChronologicalBy Date

ThematicBy Category

Domains of Knowledge

Sophistication/Scalability is Possible

40th Anniversary Digital Image Archive as Reverse Engineered Weblog

http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/anniversary/

http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/tf-wiki-1.12

Wikis

KnowledgeCollaborationTools

OpenEditableVersioning

Historical Progressionof Encyclopedia

EpistemicTrajectories

http://www.wikipedia.org/

Paradigmatic Shift of Knowledge Production & Dissemination

Shifting Models ofScholarly Production

Getting Started by Contributing

http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/tf-wiki-1.12

Wikis as Workgroup Collaboration/ Learning Tool

Developing, Sharing, Collaborating on Documents

Universe of Knowledge

SpecificDomains of Knowledge

Everything in A Wiki is Open Editable and Reeditable

Simpler Nomenclature(little codingexperience needed)

Radically OpenArchitecture

OrganicMorphology

Versioning Histories

Basic Definition

Nuanced Knowledge Domains

Authors, Revisions, Reasons, Versions

Universe of Knowledge

NewTaxonomies of

Knowledge

Interactivity Media Specificity, Disruptive Technology, Paradigm Shift

New Tools Impact to Prevailing Models :Teaching,

Scholarly Infrastructures, Scholarly Production

Knowledge Production

Uncharted Territory, Unexploited, Unexplored

Questions?

Library Weblog: Books and Byteshttp://library.uwf.eduhttp://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/library

Library Task Force Wikihttp://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/tf-wiki-1.12

Ray Uzwyshyn, Ph.D., MLISHead, Digital and Learning TechnologiesUWF Libraries, ruzwyshyn@uwf.edu (850)474-2448

UWF 40th Anniversary Digital Image Libraryhttp://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/anniversary/Project Briefing: D-Lib Sept/Oct 08: http://www.dlib.org

http://library.uwf.edu/weblogwikipresentation.ppt

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