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‘The Frictionless Library’Following Ranganathan Towards "Five Principles for Networked Libraries”
Tony HirstDepartment of Communication & Systems,
The Open University
“Back to the Future and into the Cloud”
Ranganathan `31: The Five Laws
Adaptive Efficient Relevant Democratic Access (to knowledge)
Modalities of Constitutional ArgumentThese methods of reasoning and ways of making arguments determine the ways in which constitutional propositions are characterized as valid from a legal point of view. These methods might be divided or recategorized in different ways, but the following six forms or
modalities of constitutional argument are widely accepted: (1) historical—relying on the intentions of the framers and ratifiers of the Constitution (see Original Intent;
History, Court Uses of); (2) textual—looking to the meaning of the words of the Constitution alone, as they would be interpreted by an average contemporary American
today; (3) structural— inferring structural rules from the relationships that
the Constitution mandates; (4) doctrinal—applying rules generated by
precedent; (5) ethical—deriving rules from those moral commitments of the
American ethos that are reflected in the Constitution; and (6) prudential—seeking to balance the costs and benefits of a particular rule. A modality is the way in which a proposition is characterized as true.
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/constitutional-interpretation#ixzz1mjX2jgoc
Historical Textual Structural Doctrinal Ethical Prudential
1st Law
2nd Law
3rd Law
4th Law
5th Law
http://www.answers.com/topic/constitutional-interpretation
“Furthur”, Joe Mabel
5The Fifth LawThe library is a growing organism
Ranganathan `31
historical, textual, structural, doctrinal, ethical, prudential
…and the Library lives in a networked world…
Structure in data - h
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Hierarchical data and treemaps - medals
Pivot tables
Couple of network graphs to make the point…
Network activity is sensitive to network structure
YOU can influence the network structure
Page Rank
Persistent side-effects
Page Rank
Or maybe not-so-persistent side-effects…?
Edge Rank
1The First LawBooks are for use
Ranganathan `31
historical, textual, structural, doctrinal, ethical, prudential
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“friction”
http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2011/11/openly-connect/
I’ve started to think about factors affecting reuse as being causes of friction .... This may not be an exhaustive list, but the things I can see that create friction in the reuse of
data are:
Explicit restrictions on reuse
Uncertainty about possible restrictions on reuse
Unusual or unfamiliar interfaces and formats
Lack of information on data and where the data is available
Sometimes you might deliberately introduce friction – perhaps you don’t want your data to be reused by just anyone, for any purpose. I don’t see friction as bad per se – we
just need to be aware of it, and especially avoid introducing friction when we don’t mean to.
“static friction”Credentials
AuthenticationTraining Requirements
Registration fee
“dynamic friction”Transaction Fees
QuotasLicense conditions
Format/representation conversions
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2The Second LawEvery reader his or her book
Ranganathan `31
historical, textual, structural, doctrinal, ethical, prudential
Democratic Access
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Known Individuals
Known Communities
The “wider public”
Networks can emerge from loosely co-ordinated action
Networks may codify “common knowledge”
3The Third LawEvery book its reader
Ranganathan `31
historical, textual, structural, doctrinal, ethical, prudential
Relevant Democratic Access
THEN…
Index + Search Terms -> Candidate Results
Candidate Results + Ranking -> Results Page(s)
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There is no Google Ground Truth any more…
the invisible librarian
“frictionless sharing”
Brian’s “Trusted Social Librarian”
4The Fourth LawSave the time of the reader
Ranganathan `31
historical, textual, structural, doctrinal, ethical, prudential
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Brian’s “Trusted Social Librarian”
“user interface friction”
Pfeiffer Consultinghttp://www.pfeifferreport.com/trends/UIF_Report.pdf
User interface friction is the resistance that the implementation and execution of a user interface feature imposes on the user of a program, device, or operating system.
User Interface Friction is not related to the functionality of an application program, and does not depend on the processing power of a computer, although these can be mitigating factors.
The same application program, functioning on two different operating systems can yield different overall UIF because of differences in the way the user interface responds.
User interface friction can result in significant productivity loss when it occurs on frequently repeated operations.
open development and “issue reports”
5The Fifth LawThe library is a growing organism
Ranganathan `31
historical, textual, structural, doctrinal, ethical, prudential
Adaptive Efficient Relevant Democratic Access
Network activity is sensitive to network structure and
dynamics
YOU can influence the network structure and its dynamics
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