Library 2.1: It’s All About the Future
Cliff Landis
GOLD/GALILEO Annual Users Group Conference
August 3, 2007
Where’s all this “2.0” stuff going?
Just a little theory…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/midiman/465631268/
1.0 2.0
3.0 4.0
1.0
http://flickr.com/photos/steffe/154686864/
• Connects Information– Web sites– Databases– FTP– Search Engines
2.0• Connects People
– Email– Social
networking sites– Gaming– IM– RSS– Wikis
http://flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/389360490/
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
3.0• Connects
Information• Reannotation
of the Web• Top-Down
– Agents
• Bottom-Up– Subjects– Tagging
http://flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/303503677/
Order + Chaos =
• A place for everything, and everything in its place
http://www.flickr.com/photos/materialboy/52523850/
Moving Beyond Text
• Looks Like:– Etsy
– Like
– Riya
• Sounds Like:– Pandora
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7573579@N08/438287251/
4.0• Connects
Knowledge
• Group/Enterprise minds (tribes)
• Information + people = knowledge
• Automated Serendipity
http://flickr.com/photos/burnblue/937198180/
Thinking ahead
• Identity
• Privacy
• Information quality
• Interoperability
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jess2712/348750790/
The Future of Resource Sharinghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/gracewong/312922826/
Each user is a unique snowflake
(in a crowd of billions)
• Privacy options
• Connections with other users
• Less clicks
• Better access
• Invisible resource sharing
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kymai100/50747791/
Keeping Your Perspectivehttp://flickr.com/photos/ms_cwang/178594018/
Where I learned about this stuff…
• Ambient Findability – Peter Morville
• Do We Need Library 3.0? – Barbara Fister
• EPIC 2014 - Robin Sloan
• Web 3.0 – Cade Metz
• Web4 – Seth Godin
• What is Web 2.0? – Tim O’Reilly
http://www.flickr.com/photos/drachmann/327122302/